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`Indo-US N-deal implementation will take 2 yrs`
Finalising the business model with NPCIL by the US vendors is going to be the most `time consuming` effort, a top nuclear business expert said.
Mumbai: The ground-level implementation of
the Indo-US civil nuclear deal will take at least two years
since finalising the business model with the Nuclear Power
Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) by the US vendors is going to
be the most "time consuming" effort, a top nuclear business
expert said here on Tuesday.
"Most time consuming effort in the entire deal is to work out the business model that will end up with a tariff rate in rupees per kilowatt-hour which is acceptable to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited," Director of Government Programmes of a global energy company USEC Inc, Vijay Sazawal said. "This model is so different and will take at least two to two-and-a-half years to work out," he said.
Referring to the modalities involved, Sazawal said, "This particular track is the one that US vendors are most unfamiliar with and may end up to be the most critical path in the execution of final contract between American Nuclear Suppliers and the NPCIL".
Sazawal is also a member of the Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee of the US Government and is closely involved as the expert on the subject matter in the US-India Business Council.
"I hope that US vendors and Indian utility (NPCIL) will come to a successful closure because of all the investment that went into the signing of the US-India Civil Nuclear cooperation deal," he said. Observing that the Indo-US nuclear deal is a continuous and multi-dimensional effort at the government-to-government level, Sazawal said the respective governments are trying to exchange ideas and projects regarding safety, improvements in technology and other areas of common interests.
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"Most time consuming effort in the entire deal is to work out the business model that will end up with a tariff rate in rupees per kilowatt-hour which is acceptable to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited," Director of Government Programmes of a global energy company USEC Inc, Vijay Sazawal said. "This model is so different and will take at least two to two-and-a-half years to work out," he said.
Referring to the modalities involved, Sazawal said, "This particular track is the one that US vendors are most unfamiliar with and may end up to be the most critical path in the execution of final contract between American Nuclear Suppliers and the NPCIL".
Sazawal is also a member of the Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee of the US Government and is closely involved as the expert on the subject matter in the US-India Business Council.
"I hope that US vendors and Indian utility (NPCIL) will come to a successful closure because of all the investment that went into the signing of the US-India Civil Nuclear cooperation deal," he said. Observing that the Indo-US nuclear deal is a continuous and multi-dimensional effort at the government-to-government level, Sazawal said the respective governments are trying to exchange ideas and projects regarding safety, improvements in technology and other areas of common interests.
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