{"id":15429,"date":"2024-06-24T12:42:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T05:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/?p=15429"},"modified":"2024-06-24T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T05:45:22","slug":"vietnam-and-russia-discuss-nuclear-energy-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/en\/vietnam-and-russia-discuss-nuclear-energy-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam and Russia discuss nuclear energy collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A memorandum has been signed relating to the construction project for a Centre for Nuclear Science and Technology in Vietnam &#8211; with discussions also held over the future options of large-scale and small modular reactors in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15430\" src=\"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/RUSSIA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/RUSSIA.jpg 730w, https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/RUSSIA-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/RUSSIA-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/RUSSIA-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/>(Image: www.kremlin.ru)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev met with Vietnamese Prime Minister\u00a0Pham Minh Chinh to discuss the proposed centre &#8211; which was the subject of an intergovernmental agreement in 2011 &#8211; as well as potential cooperation in the field of nuclear energy. The meeting happened ahead of the bilateral summit during President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s visit to the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Likhachev also met Vietnam&#8217;s Science and Technology\u00a0Minister\u00a0Huynh Thanh Dat, with the two\u00a0signing an interdepartmental memorandum about the plans for the centre, with Likhachev describing the agreement as &#8220;a programme document that contains a clear schedule of activities for the development of the project for the period until 2027&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, on Friday, Russia&#8217;s\u00a0Tass\u00a0news agency quoted Likhachev as saying he had outlined nuclear energy options to the Vietnamese prime minister &#8211; &#8220;the entire range of our export supplies, large units, small and medium-capacity plants, and small modular reactors both in onshore and floating versions&#8221;. All would be accompanied by localisation of suppliers and workforce he said, adding that &#8220;we will wait for their decision&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the leaders&#8217; statements to the media after the summit, President Putin said that &#8220;a\u00a0promising area for\u00a0expanding bilateral cooperation is nuclear energy&#8221;, while Vietnamese President To Lam\u00a0said &#8220;we also agreed to\u00a0explore opportunities for\u00a0stepping up our cooperation on\u00a0new energy sources and\u00a0clean energy, as\u00a0well as\u00a0facilitate the\u00a0green transition and\u00a0sustainable development&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier in the week President Putin visited North Korea, where the two countries agreed a comprehensive strategic partnership which, among other things, included agreeing &#8220;to develop cooperation in the area of space exploration, peaceful use of nuclear energy, AI, and IT&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Researched and written by World Nuclear News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A memorandum has been signed relating to the construction project for a Centre for Nuclear Science and Technology in Vietnam &#8211; with discussions also held over the future options of large-scale and small modular reactors in the country. &nbsp; &nbsp; (Image: www.kremlin.ru) &nbsp; &nbsp; Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev met with Vietnamese Prime Minister\u00a0Pham Minh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15432,"href":"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429\/revisions\/15432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinatom.gov.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}