India, Feb. 12 -- While Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pursuing an official tour of France and United States, securing public-private partnerships for small modular reactors (SMR) is on the top of India's agenda.

SMRs are actually advanced, miniature nuclear reactors with a power capacity of up to 300 MW(e) per unit, which is about a third of the capacity of traditional nuclear power reactors.

SMRs, capable of generating large amounts of low-carbon electricity, are are physically much smaller than conventional nuclear power reactors. Their systems and components can be factory-assembled and transported as a single unit for installation on-site.

Benefits of SMRs The key advantages of SMRs stem from their small and modular design. Due t...