Nice, June 14 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed cooperation in the nuclear sector, including small and advanced modular reactors.

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, during a special briefing by the Ministry of External Affairs on the visit of Prime Minister Modi to Nice, invited French nuclear companies for direct participation in the Indian nuclear sector, under the SHANTI Act.

"And with that in view, I think the field is open for French nuclear companies, in this case, to start looking at direct participation in the Indian nuclear sector or do so in participation with Indian private sector companies, whether in conventional nuclear power reactors or in the more advanced small modular reactors,...