The US firm Westinghouse Electric and the Nuclear Power Company of India Ltd.,
NPCIL have signed a preliminary pact for an Early Works Agreement, EWA for the
installation of the first 1,000 MW American nuclear reactor in India under the
historic 2008 Indo-US civil nuclear deal.The signing of the MoU,
coincides with the third Indo-US Strategic Dialogue headed by US Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton and External Affairs Minister S M Krishna.The MoU
relates to negotiating an EWA supporting future construction of 1,000 MW nuclear
power reactors at the Mithivirdi site in Bhavnagar district in
Gujarat.
