Nuclear power for Vietnam has been raised again, this time by the South Korean Minister of Trade, Industry, and Energy Ahn Duk-geun, and a Vietnam-South Korea business forum in Seoul. The minister has suggested that South Korea could provide support for Vietnam should it choose to pursue it, according to The Investor.
Of note, during Vladimir Putin’s brief two-day visit to Hanoi a couple of weeks ago, the Russian president oversaw the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Russia’s Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation and Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology. If realised, this agreement would see the former assist the latter to establish a Nuclear Science and Technology Center in Vietnam with a Russian nuclear reactor.
This has given nuclear power a boost in public discourse with nuclear power plants raised as a means to help Vietnam reach its net-zero by 2050 goal. Nuclear power, however, was first raised as an option back in 1995 but nothing, as yet, has come of it.
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