Vietnam's plans to build two nuclear power plants continue to inch forward with the approval by the country's National Assembly of a resolution on investment policy for the project.
The Vietnamese government approved a nuclear power development plan in 2007, aiming for a 2000 MWe nuclear power plant to be online by 2020, and a general law on nuclear energy was passed in mid 2008. Since then work has been under way to develop the necessary legal and regulatory framework.
Details on the latest resolution are sketchy, with the news service of state broadcaster Voice of Vietnam saying only that a resolution had been passed concerning the building of two nuclear power plants in the south central province of Ninh Thuan and a hydroelectric plant in the north western Lai Chau province.
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