Sergio Gor, the US ambassador to India, has alluded to a significant nuclear energy cooperation between Washington and New Delhi. The American envoy wrote, "Big things ahead in India-US collaboration on nuclear energy," in response to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis' X post regarding his meeting with an executive delegation of the Nuclear Energy Institute and the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum as part of the "US Nuclear Executive Mission to India."
With the Maharashtra government signing memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with four business groups to develop nuclear power projects totalling 25,400 MW of capacity, India's efforts to strengthen civil nuclear links with the US have gained new impetus in recent days.

These projects, which represent investments of Rs 6.5 lakh crore, seek to support national net-zero targets and treble India's current atomic capacity. Fadnavis urged American businesses to invest in Maharashtra, claiming that the state was prepared to spearhead the shift in the nuclear energy industry.
The United States' Interest in India's Nuclear Sector
Currently in India is a high-level senior US delegation that includes officials from nuclear energy value chain firms.
According to Nolty Theriot, Senior Vice President of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), the team had a "great set of meetings" with Manohar Lal Khattar, the Minister of Power, and Nirmala Sitharaman, the Minister of Finance.

"We brought a senior delegation from some of the top US nuclear companies, including the major reactor designers and the full nuclear energy supply chain, alongside our partners, the Nuclear Energy Institute. He remarked, "We had a great set of meetings... and it was really about strengthening the partnership, looking for ways to create joint ventures."The US has state-of-the-art technology, so it provided us with an excellent opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the regulations. India boasts a highly skilled labour force as well as effective, state-of-the-art EPC firms. Thus, these collaborations are mutually beneficial," he continued.

The Game-Changing Act of India
The US delegation also mentioned how the SHANTI Act, 2025, which was just passed, has made it possible for the commercial nuclear industry to collaborate with India in a number of ways. "The SHANTI Act has given us an opening to create a relationship between the US industry and the Indian industry," Maria Korsnick, president and CEO of the NEI, told PTI. The industry wants to collaborate with the Indian government and commercial nuclear sector to build nuclear reactors in the nation.The United States has made incredible strides in commercial nuclear power. We've had lightwater technology for a long time. We now have molten salt reactors, high-temperature gas reactors, and advanced reactors', she continued.

All of these developments, including large, medium, and small reactors, are taking place in the United States, according to Korsnick. "So it is really up to India -- what it wants and what it is interested in so that we can form partnerships," she said.
NEI representatives have already been to India for similar discussions. They returned for the first time in 2006. "We travelled to India on a trade assignment twenty years ago. But nuclear liability issues, which were different in India than in other nations, prevented it from taking off, according to Korsnick.
She continued by saying that the nuclear business had changed over the previous 20 years and that the SHANTI Act had addressed those issues."It is really a new day for the nuclear sector," Kosnick continued.