The
design of Vietnam’s first nuclear power plant incorporates the most comprehensive
safety factors, a spokesperson for the Russian company that will start building
the plant in 2014 was quoted as saying Wednesday.
Newswire VnExpress quoted Petr Shchedrovitsky
from the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation, or “Rosatom,” as saying the
plant would use the advanced technology currently used by 80 percent of nuclear
plants around the world.
It would not face the problems seen at Japan's
Fukushima Daiichi plant, he said. The plant was crippled by a massive
earthquake and tsunami on March 11 last year, leading to one of the world’s
worst nuclear crisis.
Vietnam can rest completely assured about
Russia’s safety standards, which are higher than international ones,
Shchedrovitsky said.
He is currently in Vietnam with a Rosatom
delegation for further discussions on atomic cooperation.
In October 2010 Vietnam signed a
multi-billion-dollar deal with Russia to build the 4,000 MW nuclear power plant
in the central province of Ninh Thuan. It is expected to begin operation in
2020. Russia agreed last year to provide Vietnam
credit of US$9 billion for the project, and has also been training Vietnamese
technicians, according to the newswire.
A second nuclear power plant is also planned
to be built in Ninh Thuan by 2020, and 13 plants in all with a total capacity
of 16,000 MW in the next two decades.
Thanh Nien News
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