Modi, who leads the world’s biggest democracy, has propped Putin up by making India one of a few loyal customers of Russian oil and gas throughout the two-year war in Ukraine. For all the controversies over nuclear power, it’s a zero-carbon form of energy when generated and it’s fast becoming part of many countries’ answer to the climate crisis. “Clearly the Kremlin has decided that would be a good idea, and some countries are keen to expand their own nuclear power production. It changed its tune in May, when it banned Russian uranium imports, and is on a quest to rapidly develop its own industry to produce HALEU to fuel its own next-generation reactors. It can only benefit India being part of closer collaboration in the Arctic.”She added that India was also benefiting from processing Russian crude oil.

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Persons: Vladimir Putin, Narendra Modi, Putin, Modi, Modi’s, ” Elisabeth Braw, Gavriil, Biden, ”, Alan Ahn, GAVRIIL GRIGOROV, ” Braw Organizations: CNN, Indian, TASS, Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative, ., Getty, Energy, Washington DC, Getty Images Locations: Moscow, Russia, Ukraine —, India, Ukraine, Europe, . Russian, AFP, China, United States, Washington