Report: Vietnam rejects nuclear power development

BANGKOK, Nov 22 (PRIME) -- The National Assembly, Vietnam’s parliament, has voted for rejection of the nuclear power development in the country, news agency VNA reported on Tuesday.

After the vote, the parliament’s chairman and the counting commission are to sign the decision and it will come in force.

The core point of a Vietnamese nuclear power program was construction of a nuclear power plant in the Ninh Thuan Province with Russian nuclear power corporation Rosatom and Japan Atomic Power.

The Ninh Thuan-1 power plant was projected to consist of two units based on VVER reactors with a capacity of up to 1.2 gigawatts (GW) each, and Russia issued a target preferential loan for implementation of the project. The plant was planned to be complete by 2027–2028.

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