Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov laid stress on the promising prospects of Vietnam - Russia collaboration in developing a nuclear power plant in the Southeast Asian country during a press conference in Moscow on January 14.

VOV.VN - The Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom) will support the construction of nuclear power plants and modern nuclear research centers in Vietnam, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev told Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Hanoi on January 13.

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.

Two Vietnamese professors who are working in the US have offered insights into the potential and challenges of nuclear power development in Vietnam, recommending an approach centred on small-scale nuclear reactors as drawn from international practices.

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.

VOV.VN - The 13th Central Party Committee convened its plenum in Hanoi on November 25 to discuss many important issues, with Party General Secretary To Lam in the chair.

VOV.VN - The Government has proposed in a proposed bill on electricity that the state hold a monopoly on investment in the construction of nuclear power plants, citing the need to ensure national energy security.

VOV.VN - Several Russian firms on September 7 showed their interest in investing in Vietnam by unveiling plans to do business in the country at a working session on the Vietnam – Russia business cooperation as part of the 7th Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok city.

There is no ground to eliminate nuclear power planning, Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien said on May 30 during the 15th NA’s third session while explaining deputies’ ideas on canceling plans for a nuclear power construction site in the central coastal province of Ninh Thuan.