Sanctions on Russian oil brought Putin and Modi closer. Now they’re in a nuclear embrace

But the choice of an electric car to get around in petroleum-rich Russia has other connotations, too: The Modi-Putin relationship, which strengthened under US and European sanctions on Russian oil and gas, has now gone green..

On Tuesday during Modis visit, Russian state news agency TASS reported that the countries were in talks for Russia to build six new high-powered nuclear reactors in India, as well as next-generation small nuclear power plants.. ..

A global race to supply nuclear plants and fuel to other parts of the world is on, and Russia is winning by many counts.. . Commercially speaking, Russia isnt good at making many things, but it does have natural resources, and it does have a strong nuclear tradition dating back to Soviet times, and thats something it can take advantage of now, Elisabeth Braw, a senior fellow with theAtlantic CouncilsTransatlantic Security Initiative, told CNN..

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.. . . Russia leads the world in the number of nuclear plant construction projects in other countries and the Russian government has been very aggressive in engaging international partners on civil nuclear cooperation, said Alan Ahn, deputy director for the Nuclear, Climate and Energy Program with Third Way, a Washington DC-based climate and energy research organization.. ..

A cruise around in an electric vehicle and a deal to boost nuclear power as clean energy, however, arent signs that Russia or India plan to give up on fossil fuels any time soon, or that either are climate leaders.. . India is the worlds third-biggest emitter of planet-heating greenhouse gases, and Russia is the fourth..

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