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US experts visit Tarapore station

Mumbai, January 13
The first Indo-US high-level meeting on civilian nuclear programmes after the July 18 landmark agreement between the two countries concluded here yesterday, according to the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).

The meeting in the form of a workshop was held between January 9 and 12.

The on-going cooperation in various areas, including high energy nuclear physics and regulatory agencies of the two countries, was endorsed by the workshop, a DAE spokesperson, Dr S.K. Malhotra, said

The 18-member US delegation was led by Acting Director of the office of Nuclear Energy Science and Technology, US Department of Energy, R. Shane Johnson. The 12-member Indian delegation was led by Dr R.B. Grover, Director, Strategic Planning Group, DAE.

The Indo-US group also visited the Tarapore Atomic Power Station units 3 and 4 of 500MW each and “this was an exercise undertaken by the DAE to show India’s latest indigenous capability,” Mr Malhotra said. — PTI