Vietnam Sends 2,000 Nuclear Workers to Russia and Japan for Project Training

JOHANNESBURG--March 11, 2013--Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Vietnam's national power development plan for 2011-20 and its plans reaching to 2030 call for a total of 10 nuclear reactors to be built, with the first completed by 2020. Russia's AtomStroyExport (Rosatom) (Moscow) will build the country's first four nuclear reactors at Phuoc Dinh (Ninh Thuan 1), each with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts (MW). Russia also would provide the majority of funding for the project, according to a November 2011 agreement.