India Seeks Uranium Mines Abroad to Expand Nuclear Capacity

India, aiming to increase atomic-energy generation capacity 13-fold in the next two decades, is in talks with Kazakhstan, Niger and Namibia to acquire uranium mines, the head of the nation’s nuclear program said.

Negotiations are also being held with Canada for importing the reactor fuel and an accord may be signed “soon,” said Srikumar Banerjee, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. India, which buys uranium from France, Russia and Kazakhstan, will push ahead with its nuclear-energy program, he said.