New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- India needs a strategy to collaborate with countries having Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technologies and should strategically identify locations requiring reliable, high-load power, particularly industrial sectors and data centres, said Alekhya Datta, Fellow and Director, Electricity and Renewables Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

"We have to have a strategy to collaborate with the countries having those technologies, and we have to focus. We have to talk about the industrial sectors and the sectors where the data centres are coming. Very strategically, the state has to open those places where we need reliable power, where we need power at a high frequency or high load. SMR plays a very important...