January 15, 2012
The location in Ninh Thuan Province's Ninh Phuoc District chosen for Vietnam's first nuclear power plant to be built in 2014. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has reaffirmed Vietnam’s determination to build a nuclear power plant because the country is due to experience serious power shortages in the next decade. “We are determined to develop [...]
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January 15, 2012
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks with journalists at Tehran's Mehrabad airport after his visit to Latin American countries January 14, 2012. Iran said on Saturday it had evidence Washington was behind the latest killing of one of its nuclear scientists, state television reported, at a time when tensions over the country’s nuclear program have escalated [...]
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January 3, 2012
An Iranian ground-to-sea missile is launched on the last day of navy war games near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on January 2. Iran’s military has warned one of the US navy’s biggest aircraft carriers to keep away from the Gulf, in an escalating showdown over Tehran’s nuclear drive. Iran’s military on [...]
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December 9, 2011
Japan’s lower house on Tuesday approved bilateral civil nuclear accords with Vietnam, Jordan, Russia and South Korea, the Kyodo News reported. The House of Representatives passed the accords, which will be effective in January 2012 if they are approved by the House of Councilors during the ongoing parliamentary session. The session will end on [...]
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December 5, 2011
The only nuclear reactor in Da Lat on Thursday was completely converted from highly enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium fuel as part of Vietnam’s commitment to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes, VnExpress reported. Vietnam and the United States reached an agreement to complete the full conversion of the Da Lat research reactor last December [...]
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November 25, 2011
Russia agreed to lend Vietnam as much as $9 billion to fund the construction of the Southeast Asian nation’s first nuclear power plant as the countries deepen their economic ties. “The total loan value will be between $8 billion and $9 billion, depending on prices of materials at the time we start construction,” Phan [...]
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November 17, 2011
Vietnam will invest VND3 trillion (US$142.8 million) into human resources training for nuclear power as of 2020, VnExpress reported Monday. The investment was planned for a project to be conducted between Vietnam ministries of science and technology, and education in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to the newswire. The project was [...]
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November 11, 2011
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak (right) ushers his Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang during a ceremony in Seoul. AFP Vietnam agreed on Tuesday to seek greater nuclear energy cooperation with South Korea, opening the way for its participation in the development of an atomic power plants in energy-hungry Vietnam. The agreement was reached during [...]
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November 3, 2011
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung signed agreements with Japanese counterpart Yoshihiko Noda to provide Japan with rare-earth minerals used in hybrid cars and wind turbines and to cooperate on a nuclear project. Japan agreed to cooperate on exploration, mining and processing of rare earths, starting with the Dong Pao project in Vietnam’s Lai [...]
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October 28, 2011
US Assistant Secretary of State Thomas M. Countryman US Assistant Secretary of State Thomas M. Countryman Thursday wrapped up his two-day visit to Vietnam during which he discussed nuclear nonproliferation with senior local officials. “Vietnam has demonstrated serious commitments to cooperating with the US on nonproliferation,” the Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and [...]
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