India and France will talk about a nuclear reactor agreement to reduce the use of coal.

In an effort to reduce India's dependency on coal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration is collaborating with France to create small modular nuclear reactors. According to people familiar with the plans who asked not to be named because the details are private, Electricite de France SA and India's Department of Atomic Energy are expected to finalise a preliminary agreement to collaborate on the technology, which has not yet received much traction, during French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to New Delhi this week.

An email requesting response was not answered by India's Atomic Energy Department. Both the nation's Ministry of External Affairs and an EDF spokesman declined to comment. According to a French official, Macron is travelling with a group that includes the utility's CEO, Luc Remont. 
India, the third-largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world, plans to quickly increase its nuclear power usage over the next ten years in an effort to fulfil rising energy demand and decarbonise. Data provided by BloombergNEF indicates that in 2022, nuclear plants generated less than 3% of the total electricity generated.