Gillard to Promote Uranium Sales in Visit to Power-Starved India
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Julia Gillard will use her first visit to India as Australia’s prime minister to begin uranium-sale talks, looking to open up a new market after appetite for nuclear fuel waned in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster.
Gillard, who will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi in a three-day visit to New Delhi that begins today, will exploit an opening created when her party overturned a ban on uranium exports to India in December. She is aiming to tap increasing energy demand in the world’s second-most populous nation, which suffered widespread power blackouts this summer.