India, Russia to ink Nuclear deal on December 5

Moscow, Dec 3 (PTI) India and Russia are expected to sign
a nuclear deal for the construction of four additional
reactors at Kudankulam nuclear power plant and expansion of
other sites during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's
three-day visit to New Delhi beginning tomorrow, a top
official has said.

"We plan to sign on Friday an inter-governmental
agreement with India to build another four reactors for the
Kudankulam nuclear power plant, and envisaging cooperation at
new sites," Russian Nuclear Energy Corporation (RosAtom) CEO
Sergei Kiriyenko was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.

A spokesman for the Rosatom said Russia and India could
also sign an agreement to supply Russian nuclear fuel to
Indian nuclear power plants. The bilateral agreement, part of
the efforts of two Indian governments and four ambassadors,
was initialled in February 2008, pending the NSG waiver.

Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export
monopoly Atomstroiexport, has been building two VVER-1000 MWe
light water reactors of the Kudankulam plant in Tamil Nadu
since 2002 under a grandfather pact signed in 1988 by India
with the ex-USSR and revived in 1998.

Earlier last month Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
indicated Moscow's willingness to provide loans to India for
importing Russian equipment. PTI VS
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