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US affirms plan for 6 nuclear plants in India
Indica News ^ | March 14, 2019 | IANS

Posted on 03/14/2019 2:40:12 PM PDT by Jyotishi

IANS -- The slow-moving US plans to set up six nuclear power plants in India have received a boost as the two nations reiterated their commitment to strengthening security and civil nuclear cooperation during the 9th India-US Strategic Security Dialogue.

A joint statement issued on Wednesday after the dialogue, where the Indian side was headed by Foreign Secretary Vijay K. Gokhale, said that Washington "reaffirmed its strong support of India's early membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group".

"They committed to strengthening bilateral security and civil nuclear cooperation, including the establishment of six US nuclear power plants in India," it added.

The statement also said that both countries declared their "commitment to work together to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems and to deny access to such weapons by terrorists and non-state actors".

The US delegation to the dialogue held in Washington was led by Andrea Thompson, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.

The statement seeks to breathe new life into expected results of the civil nuclear cooperation agreement between the two countries, which have failed to live up to the hopes since it was signed in 2008 during the Prime Ministership of Manmohan Singh and the Presidency of George W. Bush.

The law limiting civil liability for nuclear damages from the plants passed in 2010 was meant to overcome a stumbling block for US companies to set up nuclear power plants in India.

However, financial problems of the US company Westinghouse that had agreed in 2016 to build six plants in Andhra Pradesh put the plans on hold when it went into bankruptcy the next year.

Now owned by Brookfield Asset Management, the US-based Westinghouse has received the backing of the Trump administration for the project and US Energy Secretary Rick Perry promoted it during a visit to India last year.

India has ambitious plans to increase its nuclear electric generation capacity to meets its growing needs with clean energy. Russia is the leading player in the nuclear power sector in India.

Ahead of the dialogue, the third round of the US-India Space Dialogue was held on Tuesday at which the two countries "discussed trends in space threats, respective national space priorities, and opportunities for cooperation bilaterally and in multilateral fora", the statement said.

Indra Mani Pandey, India's Additional Secretary for Disarmament and International Security Affairs, and Yleem Poblete, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, co-chaired the meeting.

Also on Tuesday, Gokhale and David Hale, the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs held India-US Foreign Office Consultations.

A statement issued after the meeting by the State Department said that they affirmed "the importance of joint leadership to strengthen the rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific region".

"Recognising that the US and India share complementary visions for the Indo-Pacific, they agreed to deepen cooperation toward their joint goals in the region, including in conjunction with other Indo-Pacific partners," it added.

The discussion between the two diplomats also covered the situations in areas of importance to the US — North Korea, where last month's summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on denuclearisation failed; Iran, where Trump has pulled out of the multinational denuclearisation agreement and imposed sanctions on Tehran, and Venezuela, where the US has recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as its president and wants Nicolas Maduro to step down following elections marred by irregularities.

Trump wants India to play a major role in the Indo-Pacific region where the two countries act as bookends of democracy, a task Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cautiously embraced without making it appear a direct challenge to China.

India and the US have also stepped up multilateral cooperation with the other two major democracies in the region, Australia and Japan.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; china; india; korea; modi; nork; nuke; pacific; trump; westinghouse
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1 posted on 03/14/2019 2:40:12 PM PDT by Jyotishi
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To: Jyotishi

Isn’t Westinghouse japanese? Toshiba?


2 posted on 03/14/2019 2:41:43 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: Jyotishi
Indra Mani Pandey, India's Additional Secretary for Disarmament and International Security Affairs, and Yleem Poblete, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, co-chaired the meeting.

And then she gathered up some cow-pies with which to cook her dinner.

Rat meat and rice.

Yay India.

3 posted on 03/14/2019 2:44:30 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: bert

Brookfield Business Partners to buy Westinghouse for $4.6 billion

January 4, 2018

(Reuters) - A subsidiary of Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Inc (BAMa.TO) (BAM.N) plans to acquire Westinghouse Electric Co LLC, the bankrupt nuclear services company owned by Toshiba Corp (6502.T), for $4.6 billion.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-westinghouse-m-a-brookfieldbusinesspa/brookfield-business-partners-to-buy-westinghouse-for-4-6-billion-idUSKBN1ET1MQ


4 posted on 03/14/2019 2:45:27 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Jyotishi

The bottleneck for much needed nuclear energy in China and India is not the lack of capital. It is a dearth of experienced nuclear power workers to staff and safely operate the plants.The only real solution is to hire on long term residential contracts Russian, American, French and British experienced nuclear workers to staff the plants and over a period of five years train qualified locals.


5 posted on 03/14/2019 2:48:58 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: humblegunner

Rats are eaten regularly in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, parts of the Philippines and Indonesia, Thailand, Ghana, China and Vietnam, says Grant Singleton, from the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151207-the-countries-where-rats-are-on-the-menu


6 posted on 03/14/2019 2:50:12 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Jyotishi

Good news in all


7 posted on 03/14/2019 2:54:01 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Jyotishi

The Last Nuclear Power Plant Under Construction in the US (from 2018)

http://fortune.com/2018/09/27/vogtle-nuclear-power-plant-construction-deal/


8 posted on 03/14/2019 2:54:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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...but still no plans for indoor plumbing. That should be a prerequisite to sitting at the big boys table.


9 posted on 03/14/2019 3:04:47 PM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: Jyotishi

If only we could build nuclear power plants here.........


10 posted on 03/14/2019 3:05:04 PM PDT by wally_bert (You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
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To: Jyotishi

Your post is relevant to the thread, how?


11 posted on 03/14/2019 3:19:10 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!!)
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But we are being bypassed here in the United States by the rest of the world in terms of building new nuclear generating plants. Nuclear generating would stop pollution of current electrical ganerating plants. It would automatically slow global warming. Jane Fonda is too old to object anymore or make movies like The China Syndrome. There would still be anti-nuclear demonstrations by stupid people who are too lazy to find out what it is all about, but we could deal with them. It makes all the sense in the world to restart building new plants.


12 posted on 03/14/2019 3:20:41 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent (I)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

It’s in response to #3.


13 posted on 03/14/2019 3:37:32 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

It would automatically slow global warming.


Except many scientists of various disciplines are leaning heavily to global cooling for the nest 500 years. Its the cycles. its the sun.


14 posted on 03/14/2019 3:38:36 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

I agree 100 percent.


15 posted on 03/14/2019 3:39:13 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Jyotishi

All I can hope is that the new owners can clear out those at Westinghouse that sank the AP1000 projects in the U.S. I suspect that the reasons the Indians are even looking at a US designed plant is that they hate the Chinese and don’t trust the Russians.


16 posted on 03/14/2019 4:00:07 PM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: humblegunner

Huh? India could be one of our best allies.


17 posted on 03/14/2019 4:04:41 PM PDT by livius
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To: Jyotishi

America needs to be building at least 6 more Nuke plants.


18 posted on 03/14/2019 4:43:13 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Jyotishi

Guarding Iraqi borders.

Building nuclear power plants in India.

Medicating Mexicans in the Southwest.


19 posted on 03/14/2019 5:42:24 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: humblegunner

What’s your basis for a cheap shot post like that?


20 posted on 03/14/2019 6:48:14 PM PDT by mikeIII
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