OREANDA-NEWS. September 30, 2008. India is interested in enlarging its cooperation with Russia in the nuclear sector, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India Anil Kakodkar said before the 52nd General Conference of IAEA in Vienna.

He said that Russia had always supported India’s aspiration to develop nuclear energy. And now that the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group has lifted its restrictions on India, Delhi is going to enlarge its cooperation with Moscow in the nuclear sector, particularly, on construction of nuclear power plants and scientific exchange.

Kakodkar said that Russia had greatly contributed to the lifting of the restrictions and that India considered Russian-Indian Kudankulam NPP project as one of the most important projects. Both reactors of the plant are near completion and India hopes that very soon they will start generating electricity. Kakodkar said that before the IAEA conference the delegations of India and Russia had discussed the prospects of their nuclear cooperation. Such meetings have already become a good tradition.