Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, who is also chairman of the steering committee for nuclear power plant construction, presided over the committee's first meeting in Hanoi on January 15.

Vietnam needs to acquire technologies to ensure the safe management of nuclear power plants, and establish an appropriate financial mechanism to secure the substantial initial investment capital for the plan.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary To Lam has asked Ninh Thuan province to prepare necessary conditions, alongside the Government, ministries, agencies and localities, for restarting the Ninh Thuan Nuclear Power Plant project to feed Vietnam’s growing economy and diversify the country’s energy sources.

VOV.VN - The Party Central Committee convened its plenum in Hanoi on November 25, discussing the streamlining of the political system’s organizational structure, the resumption of the nuclear power project and personnel affairs, according to a press communique of the plenum.