Russian company signs uranium supply deal with India

October 5th, 2009 Russian FM: Iran enrichment deal needs finalizingMOSCOW — Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that an agreement reached between Tehran and six world powers last week for Russia to help enrich uranium for an Iranian reactor has yet to be finalized. Lavrov said that experts would have to work out specifics of the deal involving the United States, France, Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

October 1st, 2009 Lowe's signs supply deal with Johns ManvilleMOORESVILLE, N.C. — Home improvement chain Lowe's Cos.

September 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj arrived in New Delhi on Sunday afternoon on a four-day state visit to India. President Elbegdorj will commence his official visit to India from Monday.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and Namibia Monday signed five agreements, including one on civil nuclear energy which allows for supply of uranium from the African country. This was decided at the start of President Hifikepunye Pohamba's five-day visit to India - which is the first state visit by a foreign head of state in the second term of the United Progressive Alliance, which was re-elected to power in May 2009.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard Monday reiterated that her country will not sell uranium to India as it is yet to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Our decision was not aimed at India.

August 21st, 2009 MOSCOW - Washington has approved a long-term contract for imports by a US company of Russian low-enriched uranium, Russia's state-run nuclear company Atomenergoprom said Friday. On Aug 19, the US commerce department "approved a direct contract for deliveries by Techsnabexport (Atomenergoprom's uranium export arm) of enriched uranium to the US energy company Constellation Energy Nuclear Group," the company said in a statement.

April 21st, 2009 MOSCOW - India will remain the main purchaser of Russian-made combat aircraft for the next 15 years under existing and prospective contracts, a Russian think tank has said. In its report titled 'The Forecast for Combat Aircraft Deliveries to India', the Center for Analysis and Technologies outlined the prospects for Russian-Indian cooperation.

April 1st, 2009 HYDERABAD - India has started benefiting from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) clearance for supply of nuclear fuel with the first consignment of 60 tonnes of uranium from France landing at the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) here. This first shipment is part of the 300 tonnes of uranium ore concentrate which French nuclear supplier AREVA NC has agreed to supply to India under bilateral cooperation for supplying reactors and fuel following clearance from the NSG, NFC officials said here Wednesday.

March 20th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Despite the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) nod for the historic India-US nuclear deal, Australia, one of the world's largest producers of uranium, is unwilling to export it to India unless New Delhi signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the country's envoy says. 'The NSG decision cannot affect our policies and decisions.

February 10th, 2009 MUMBAI - Taking their nuclear cooperation to another level, Russia's leading nuclear company TVEL and India's Department of Atomic Energy Wednesday signed two contracts for supplying uranium for Indian nuclear reactors. The Department of Atomic Energy and TVEL, a joint stock company of the Russian Federation, have signed a contract for the long-term supply of 2,000 tonnes of natural uranium pellets for India's pressurised heavy water reactors, the DAE said in a statement here.

February 7th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russian nuclear fuel producer TVEL expects to sign a $780 million contract for fuel supplies to Indian nuclear power plants, a spokesman for Russia's state nuclear power corporation Rosatom has said. The contract, if signed, could make Russia the first country to supply nuclear fuel to India since the Nuclear Suppliers Group lifted a three-decade ban on nuclear fuel sales to the country on Sept 6, 2008.

January 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Long-term cooperation in the supply of Kazakh uranium for nuclear reactors will help in solving India's power demand, said Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev here Saturday. 'Long-term cooperation (in supply of uranium) will lead to the solving of India's problem of power,' he said in his address at a business meet jointly organised by industry chambers.

January 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev arrived here Friday night on a four-day visit during which India and the energy-rich Central Asian country are expected to sign a civil nuclear agreement and a slew of economic pacts. The Kazakh president will be India's guest of honour at the Republic Day parade.

January 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and Kazakhstan are set to invigorate their ties when they sign a nuclear pact and other economic agreements during the four-day visit of the energy-rich Central Asian country's President Nursultan Nazarbayev that begins Jan 23. 'The visit will further consolidate and provide fresh impetus to the bilateral relations,' the external affairs ministry said here Wednesday while announcing his visit.

January 5th, 2009 SHILLONG - India's nuclear power plants have been working at about half their capacity due to shortage of nuclear fuel despite the efforts of the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) to tap indigenous uranium deposits. The power plants are facing shortage of uranium supply due to the slow process of opening up of new uranium mines.