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Updated: May 18, 2026 20:17 IST
New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): A high-level US industry delegation comprising representatives from the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) and the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) at the moment held discussions with Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh, on rising opportunities for private investment and industry collaboration in India’s nuclear sector.
The delegations’ go to, facilitated by the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum, introduced collectively senior representatives from the US nuclear industry, enterprise stakeholders and officers related with India-U.S. cooperation in civil nuclear vitality and superior applied sciences.
Jitendra Singh stated that India and the United States at the moment share a robust and future-oriented partnership in science, expertise, clear vitality and rising sectors, with civil nuclear cooperation steadily gaining strategic and financial significance.
He stated the launch of the US-India TRUST Initiative throughout the assembly between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on February 13, 2025, has opened new avenues for collaboration in vital and rising applied sciences.
The Minister stated the TRUST initiative, centred round trusted expertise partnerships, resilient provide chains and innovation ecosystems, offers a robust framework for deeper engagement amongst governments, industry, academia and startups in areas similar to synthetic intelligence, semiconductors, biotechnology, quantum applied sciences, superior supplies, vital minerals, vitality and area applied sciences.
Referring to India’s long-term clear vitality objectives underneath the imaginative and prescient of Viksit Bharat 2047, Dr Jitendra Singh stated India goals to extend its nuclear energy capability from the current 8.8 GW to 100 GW by 2047 by means of a phased and punctiliously deliberate growth technique.
He stated India’s quickly rising nuclear vitality programme is creating main opportunities for world partnerships in manufacturing, expertise cooperation, provide chain integration and superior analysis, in accordance with a launch.
The Minister knowledgeable the delegation that India has not too long ago enacted the SHANTI Act, 2025, a serious coverage reform geared toward facilitating higher participation of the private sector, together with overseas participation, in the nuclear vitality sector.
He stated the reform is predicted to create a extra enabling ecosystem for investment, industrial collaboration, manufacturing partnerships and expertise cooperation aligned with India’s Nuclear Energy Mission.
He added that the implementation framework underneath the Act is being finalised to additional strengthen collaborative opportunities in the sector.
The Union Minister stated India can be transferring forward with plans for improvement of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), supported by an allocation of practically Rs 20,000 crore, and added that there’s vital scope for India-US collaboration in superior areas similar to micro-reactors, AI-enabled nuclear security techniques, scientific computing, nuclear vitality modelling and institutional capability constructing.
The discussions additionally reviewed progress in a number of ongoing India-US collaborative initiatives together with the proposed Westinghouse AP1000 undertaking at Kovvada, cooperation underneath the Indo-U.S. Civil Nuclear Energy Working Group (CNEWG), hydrogen manufacturing and built-in vitality techniques, machine studying and AI functions, uncommon earth collaboration, and high-intensity superconducting proton accelerator applied sciences by means of Fermilab partnerships.
The assembly additional lined progress in the LIGO-India undertaking being collectively carried out by the Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science & Technology in collaboration with the U.S.-based LIGO Laboratory and the National Science Foundation.
Approved with a budgetary provision of Rs 2,600 crore, the undertaking is considered one of the vital examples of superior scientific collaboration between India and the United States.
The interplay concluded with a shared dedication to deepen sensible, industry-led and mutually useful cooperation between India and the United States in clear vitality, nuclear applied sciences, superior manufacturing and innovation-driven sectors.
The interplay centered on India’s bold Nuclear Energy Mission, latest coverage reforms enabling higher private sector participation, and the increasing scope of India-U.S. cooperation in clear vitality and significant applied sciences.
Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Dr Rajesh S. Gokhale, senior officers from the Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science & Technology, alongside with representatives from U.S. industry organisations, participated in the discussions. (ANI)