New Delhi, 23 September (H.S.): Prime Minister Narendra Modi

met Dr. Krishna Singh of Holtec International in New York as a pert of meetings

with business leaders to promote India as one of the favourite investment

destination in high technology domain. Holtec, the world's largest exporter of

capital nuclear components, currently employs more than 2,000 people globally

and provides spent fuel storage and transport for 145 nuclear plants worldwide

and specialized in building small modular reactors (SMRs) around the world,

recently in UK with more than 1.5 billion euro.

Holtec International does have

a presence in India through its investment in Gujarat, Maharashtra, even signed

a MoU with the Maharashtra government to set up a nuclear equipment

manufacturing facility in the state in 2018.

Dr Singh has over 70 patents

to his name, had his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of

Pennsylvania with more than 70 technical papers, one textbook and numerous

symposia volumes.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Nimish kumar