Rosatom pitches advanced reactors and modular units to help India meet 100 GW nuclear goal
Rosatom presented a range of large-capacity and small modular nuclear reactors to India at a trade fair linked to the BRICS summit, aiming to aid Delhi’s 100 GW nuclear expansion.
Russia’s state-run nuclear group Rosatom used the Innoprom India industrial fair, held alongside the BRICS summit in New Delhi, to showcase a portfolio of nuclear technologies for India’s target of 100 GW of nuclear power by 2047. The catalogue includes the newer VVER-1200 reactor, an upgrade from the VVER-1000 units already deployed at the Kudankulam plant in Tamil Nadu, as well as small modular reactors. During a tour, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and Russia’s Industry and Trade Minister Anton Alikhanov received a briefing from Rosatom’s first deputy director general for international business, Kirill Komarov, who stressed the partnership’s scope beyond power generation to nuclear medicine, additive manufacturing, composite materials and logistics.
Rosatom remains the sole foreign contractor at Kudankulam, where two reactors are operational and four more are at various stages of construction. The company also signed agreements with Indian firms on digital engineering software, energy-sector digitalisation, and a pilot titanium sponge plant, underscoring broader industrial collaboration.
Why it matters
The partnership could speed India’s nuclear power build-out and deepen Russia-India technology ties.
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