Vietnam to open information center about nuclear power

Thứ tư, 11/4/2012 | 15:38 GMT+7
Vietnam’s first communication center on nuclear power is expected to open this year and provide information to popularize the new utility, an official says.

In a Sunday report on news website VnExpress, Pham Quang Trung, deputy head of nuclear power at the Ministry of Science and Technology, said the center will be built at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology.

“As Vietnam prepares to build its first nuclear power plant, the center will provide information about nuclear power, a subject still very new in Vietnam,” Trung said.

The center, which targets students and any interested person, will receive technical and financial support from Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom and will be equipped with 3D projectors among other equipment, he said.

Last year, experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency visited Vietnam providing technical support for the center and the nuclear power plant, especially about risk management because fears have risen about the safety of nuclear power after the accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima.

Vietnam’s first nuclear power plant in the central coastal province of Ninh Thuan is being built with capacity of 4,000 megawatts.

The plant construction was planned to start in the first quarter in 2014 and finish in 2020, operating with Russian technologies.
 
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