Overview
- Senior officials from India and EDF met in New Delhi on Friday to review plans for deploying EDF's EPR reactor technology and to map next steps for collaboration.
- India told the French delegation that the Draft SHANTI rules are being finalised and placed for stakeholder consultation to create a streamlined, time‑bound licensing route for private and foreign partners.
- EDF said it will work to build a domestic supply chain and ecosystem in India and that a sizeable multi‑reactor programme would be needed to give suppliers confidence and lower costs.
- The two sides discussed grid flexibility through pumped hydro storage and explored a proposed NTPC‑EDF joint venture as a route to pair long‑duration storage with new nuclear capacity.
- The talks come as India pursues rapid nuclear expansion—operating 24 reactors with several under construction and targets of 100 GW by 2047—and could speed jobs and local industry orders if rules and large programmes align.