New Delhi: Russia offered to build a floating nuclear power plant in the territorial waters of India, in addition to sharing the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technologies, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin on Friday discussed taking the bilateral atomic energy cooperation beyond the facility in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu.

Moscow also renewed its call to New Delhi to allot a second site in India to build a new nuclear power plant with technologies from Russia.

“We believe that building small modular reactors and floating NPPs (nuclear power plants) (in India) could also be relevant, just as using nuclear technology for non-energy purposes, including in healthcare, agriculture and other sectors,” Putin told journalists after his meeting with Modi at Hyderabad House

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