Vietnam Announces Agreement With Russia to Build 13 Nuclear Reactors.

[NNadir]

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN_Reactor_and_fuel_take_back_for_Vietnam_0909101.html">Reactor and fuel take-back for Vietnam

Before the end of October Russia will sign to build a nuclear power plant in Vietnam, provide the fuel and take it back for reprocessing.

The countries intend to "accelerate work" towards the signing, said Vietnamese prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung after a meeting with Rosatom's Sergei Kiriyenko.

Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet and minister of trade Vu Huy Huang were also present.

Nearly all the key points of the necessary intergovernmental agreement are in place, Kiriyenko said, noting that Russia is to guarantee a loan for the construction. A delegation from Vietnam's Ministry of Finance is set to visit Moscow in mid-September and Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin is expected to visit Hanoi in October to sign off the final deal...

...In the second phase to 2020, the country will finalize construction and put into operation the first 1000 MWe reactor at Phuoc Dinh in the southern Ninh Thuan province.



And by 2030, Vietnam wants to construct a further 13 power reactors. A second 1000 MWe unit at the Phuoc Dinh site will begin operating in 2012. Two further 1000 MWe units are planned there, with operation scheduled for 2023 and 2024 respectively. Four 1000 MWe reactors are also planned for Vinh Hai in the Ninh Hai district. The first two are slated to begin operating in 2021 and 2022, with the second pair starting up in 2024 and 2025.

[David__77]

1. This will be great for Vietnam's economy.

Wonderful type of bilateral cooperation.

[NNadir]

2. I agree. The primary energy production from the reactors will easily match Vietnam's

current consumption of all forms of energy as of 2010.

[eridani]

3. Wonder why they didn't go with France

No Chernobyls there, ever.

[Nihil]

4. Dien Bien Phu? (n/t)

:shrug:

[AlecBGreen]

5. bingo

[Statistical]

7. That likely is a consideration.

although it won't be the official reason given the reality is French companies and French workers are "Persona non grata".

Even if Russia hadn't been chosen the French were at the bottom of the list.

[NNadir]

6. The VVER Reactor is a widely used design.

Let me put this in words that even car CULTists can understand.

The fact that the Yugo was a Fiat design doesn't make the Ferrari worthless. (However the fact that it is a CAR, implies that it sucks.)

There is not one VVER that has operated anywhere on earth under accidental conditions that kills as many people as a coal plant kills when it operates normally.