Initial Work Beginning on Westinghouse Nuclear Project in India
- Nuclear project is first under U.S.-India civil accord
- Project will help India boost capacity without emmissions
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Engineering and site-design work is set to begin immediately for six Westinghouse Electric Co. nuclear power plants in India, as part of the world’s second most populous nation’s efforts to curb emissions from fossil fuels.
The contract is the first under a U.S.-India civil nuclear accord reached in 2008, John Morton, White House senior director for energy and climate change, said during a conference call Tuesday. The agreement set a deadline of June 2017 to finalize the contract for the project between Nuclear Power Corp. of India Ltd. and Westinghouse, a unit of Toshiba Corp.