U.S. nuclear industry delegation meets Jitendra Singh, explores private investment avenues in India

A U.S. manufacture delegation comprising the Nuclear Energy Institute and the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum met Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh connected Monday (May 18, 2026) to sermon backstage concern and manufacture collaboration successful India’s atomic sector, a property connection from the Science Ministry said.

The meeting, attended by Department of Science and Technology Secretary Rajesh S. Gokhale and elder officials from the Department of Atomic Energy, focused connected India’s Nuclear Energy Mission and caller argumentation reforms widening backstage assemblage participation.

Mr. Singh told the delegation that India aimed to standard up atomic capableness from the existent 8.8 GW to 100 GW by 2047 — a astir 12-fold enlargement that forms a cardinal plank of the government’s ‘Viksit Bharat’ vision. Nuclear powerfulness presently contributes astir 3% of India’s energy generation, with installed capableness drawn from 24 operating reactors. Capacity is projected to scope astir 22 GW by 2032 done a premix of indigenous 700 MW pressurised dense h2o reactors and reactors built done planetary cooperation.

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The Minister highlighted the precocious enacted SHANTI (Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India) Act, 2025, which replaced the Atomic Energy Act of 1962 and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act of 2010. The instrumentality permits backstage and overseas information — including up to 49% equity successful atomic powerfulness projects — and overhauls the supplier liability authorities that had agelong deterred overseas vendors. He said the implementation model nether the Act was being finalised.

Discussions besides covered Small Modular Reactors, for which the authorities has allocated astir ₹20,000 crore, and imaginable practice connected micro-reactors, AI-enabled information systems and atomic vigor modelling.

The 2 sides reviewed advancement connected the long-pending Westinghouse AP1000 task astatine Kovvada, the Indo-U.S. Civil Nuclear Energy Working Group, hydrogen production, uncommon earths practice and superconducting accelerator enactment with Fermilab. The LIGO-India gravitational-wave observatory, approved astatine ₹2,600 crore and being implemented with the U.S. LIGO Laboratory and the National Science Foundation, was besides discussed.

The interaction, the authorities said, concluded with a committedness to deepen industry-led practice nether the U.S.-India TRUST Initiative announced successful February 2025.

TRUST (Transforming the Relationship Utilizing Strategic Technology) is simply a bilateral model launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump successful February 2025, replacing the earlier iCET inaugural from the Joe Biden years. It aims to deepen India-U.S. practice crossed defence, AI, semiconductors, quantum computing, biotechnology, energy, space, and captious minerals — with a flagship roadmap connected accelerating AI infrastructure build-out successful India.