Areva, Westinghouse and GE from the US and France and other such leading nuclear power companies are not the only ones eager to tap the opportunities in India’s nuclear power market
– By Abby Gessner –
Countries such as Sweden, are among the leading names in providing nuclear risk management services, have now shown interest in garnering a share in India’s nuclear power space, and Sweden’s ambassador to India, Lars-Olof Lindgren is leading an industrial delegation to India on April 14.
French company Areva has joined hands with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India, and GE Hitachi has signed an agreement with BHEL; both giants are for supplying nuclear reactors to India. NPCIL is also working with Westinghouse to manufacture 1,000 mw nuclear reactors in India.
But Swedish companies like Sandvik, Sweco, SKB International AB, Relcon Scandpower AB, all part of Lindgren’s delegation, are offering services in the areas of construction and engineering of nuclear power plants, risk management, nuclear waste disposal management as well as research and development.