S. Korea Shares Nuclear Development Experience with Vietnam

South Korean nuclear scientists and managers have pledged to share their experience and knowledge in the field with Vietnamese colleagues in a bid to facilitate Vietnam to build its first nuclear power plant.

 

The commitments were made at the workshop themed “Vietnam-Republic of Korea Nuclear Power Technologies” jointly held by the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute under the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Energy Institute under the Ministry of Industry in coordination with the RoK's Ministry of Science and Technology in Hanoi yesterday October 17.

 

At the meeting, RoK’s experts made presentations on important issues in a nuclear power development program, such as policy making, plant designing, equipment manufacturing, fuel supplying and safety measures.

 

Vietnam is expected to arrange $3.4 billion of foreign credits, commercial loans and the issuance of local currency-based bonds to build its first 2,000-4,000-megawatt nuclear plant in the southeastern province of Ninh Thuan.

 

The communist-ruled country will step by step raise the contribution of the nuclear power source to its total power output to 11 per cent in 2025, and 25-30 per cent by 2040 and 2050.