The United States and India are exploring ways for “practical” civil nuclear energy cooperation amid a global energy crisis triggered by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, reviving a 2008 deal that had fallen into disuse.
Geoffrey R. Pyatt, assistant secretary of state for Energy Resources, said on Feb. 20 that he discussed with his Indian counterparts the issues that had hampered civil nuclear cooperation between the two nations.
“I am very focused on how we can develop opportunities for future civil nuclear cooperation, recognizing that if we are stuck at issues, we have to work them through, the famous liability question,” he told Press Trust of India….