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Rosatom offers to build nuclear power plant in Vietnam

Rosatom boss Alexei Likhachev met with Vietnamese prime minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday (Government of Vietnam)
Russian nuclear engineer Rosatom has offered to build two VVER-1200 reactors in Vietnam, and help with wind and battery projects, the Interfax agency reports.

Chief executive Alexei Likhachev told journalists in Hanoi after meeting Vietnamese prime minister Pham Minh Chinh that Rosatom would update agreements reached 10 years ago.

He called VVER-1200s “the most advanced, cutting-edge facilities, only six of which have been built in the world”.

Vietnam wants to restart its nuclear power programme with the aim of completing its first plant by 2030. 

The country halted development in 2016.

Citing concerns over cost and safety, the National Assembly voted that year to abandon plans to build two plants in cooperation with Russia and Japan.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered the Industry and Trade Ministry to produce a detailed plan to restart work on one of these, the Ninh Thuan plant in the south of the country.

In June 2024, Rosatom and the Vietnamese Science and Technology Agency signed a memorandum scheduling the construction of a nuclear science and technology centre in Vietnam.

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