India’s prime minister Narendra Modi will discuss nuclear energy, including small and modular reactors, during his meeting with US president Donald Trump this week.
India’s oil and gas minister Hardeep Singh Puri said nuclear would be “absolutely on the agenda” when the two leaders meet in Washington later this week.
Modi has already spoken with US vice-president JD Vance about how the US can assist India in diversifying its energy sourcing through investments in US nuclear technology, the White House said. The two met on 11 February at a summit on artificial intelligence convened by French president Emmanuel Macron in Paris.
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