French nuclear power reactors in India: Are they worth the wait (and cost)?
Posted: 5th September 2022
By Urvashi Sarkar | September 2, 2022
French President Emmanuel Macron hugs Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi before their meeting at the Chateau of Chantilly, near Paris, on August 22, 2019. In May 2022, Modi and Macron reaffirmed their commitment to the construction of six European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs) at the Jaitapur site in Maharashtra, India. (Pascal Rossignol/AFP via Getty Images)
The world was still deep in the clutches of the global COVID-19 pandemic in April 2021 when Vakisasai Ramany, a senior vice-president of Electricité de France (EDF), a major French electric utility company, traveled to India. The purpose of this unusually timed business trip? The delivery of a technical and commercial offer for nuclear reactors—in person.