31 Oct (NucNet): Russia and Vietnam today signed an agreement for Russia to build two nuclear units in the Southeast Asian country, Russia’s federal nuclear energy agency Rosatom has confirmed.
The agreement provides for the construction on a turnkey basis of two nuclear units, each of 1,000 megawatts.
Both units – Ninh Thuan-1 and Ninh Thuan-2 – will be built in the southeastern province of Ninh Thuan.
The agreement was signed by the director-general of Russia’s federal nuclear energy agency Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko, and Vietnam’s minister of industry and commerce, Vu Huy Hoang. The signing was witnessed by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and the president of Vietnam Nguyen Minh Triet.
Vietnam intends to build 15 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2030 and has identified eight sites in five provinces with each site capable of hosting from four to six units.
The first nuclear power plant is scheduled to be operational by 2020, Rosatom said. By 2025, the total capacity in commercial operation should reach 8 GW and by 2030 there could be 13 units with a total capacity of 15 GW, producing 10 percent of the country’s electricity.
In December 2009, Russia and Vietnam signed a memorandum on cooperation to construct the first nuclear power plant in Vietnam.
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