MOSCOW, January 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's top civilian nuclear official will visit a nuclear power plant Russia is helping build in India on January 22 during a three-day routine visit to the country, the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power said Friday.
Atomstroyexport, Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly, has been building the Kudankulam NPP in the southern province of Tamil Nadu since 2002, in line with a 1988 agreement between India and the Soviet Union and an addendum signed in 1998. When complete, it will have capacity of 2,000 MW.
After visiting the construction site, Sergei Kiriyenko will meet with the head of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission to discuss prospects for bilateral cooperation in the civilian nuclear sector.
Russia has offered India a government loan on favorable terms for the Kudankulam NPP project.
