The agreement will lay out timelines and the lead local constructor for the reactors to be built at Kovvada in southern India and also address lingering concerns over India's nuclear liability law
The plant is seen as critical to the nuclear industry's future because existing reactors are struggling to compete with cheap natural gas and renewable energy
Gujarat, Rajasthan and Haryana each has two reactors under construction currently. Tamil Nadu has three reactors under construction
The six proposed nuclear power reactors in Jaitapur in Maharashtra will also have capacity of 1,650 Mw each
Jose Gutierrez, interim chief executive of Westinghouse, said the company would have constructed four operational AP1000 reactors by 2017-18 in the country with Chinese partners planning to build several more
The deal would be the first nuclear commercial power project since the US and India agreed in 2008 to cooperate in the civil nuclear arena