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The area planned for Vietnam's first nuclear power plant in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan Nearly 100 workers and engineers Thursday started seismic surveys at the location of Vietnam’s first nuclear power plant in the central province of Ninh Thuan, a local news website reported the same day. VnExpress quoted...

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The location in Ninh Thuan Province's Ninh Phuoc District chosen for Vietnam's first nuclear power plant to be built in 2014. Vietnam has sent 70 people to Russia to receive training in nuclear technology, the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology said at a Hanoi conference Tuesday. The overseas training is estimated...

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The location in Ninh Thuan Province's Ninh Phuoc District chosen for Vietnam's first nuclear power plant to be built in 2014. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has reaffirmed Vietnam’s determination to build a nuclear power plant because the country is due to experience serious power shortages in the next decade....

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  Russia agreed to lend Vietnam as much as $9 billion to fund the construction of the Southeast Asian nation’s first nuclear power plant as the countries deepen their economic ties. “The total loan value will be between $8 billion and $9 billion, depending on prices of materials at the time we start...

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  Vietnam will invest VND3 trillion (US$142.8 million) into human resources training for nuclear power as of 2020, VnExpress reported Monday. The investment was planned for a project to be conducted between Vietnam ministries of science and technology, and education in cooperation...

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An aerial handout photograph from an unmanned airplane taken on March 20 shows the No. 3 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture in Japan. Shaken to the core by the havoc wreaked by the tsunami in March, in particular the massive nuclear disaster it spawned, Japan...

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A woman sits at her shop selling generators in downtown Hanoi. Last week, Vietnam’s ninth national conference on nuclear power wrapped up in the south central province of Ninh Thuan with local and international experts pointing out many factors that pose risks to the country’s first atomic power plants scheduled...

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Residents look at a map of the planned nuclear power plant in Ninh Thuan Province’s Thuan Nam District. After scientists detected new faults near the site, experts have urged that the plans be deferred. Two fault lines hitherto uncovered have provoked myriad calls for Vietnam’s nuclear power plans to be deferred...

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The model of Vietnam's first nuclear power plant to be built in the central province of Ninh Thuan. Studies so far have showed that primary energy sources aren’t sufficient to replace nuclear power in meeting Vietnam’s electricity needs, the country’s deputy prime minister told the press on Friday.   With...

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A man paddles his wooden boat nearby the Bataan Nuclear Power plant in Morong town. In a fresh but ambiguous take on ecotourism, travelers in the Philippines can visit a remote turtle sanctuary and then venture into the heart of a nearby nuclear power plant. If tourists feel too weary to make the three-hour bus drive back...

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