The Japan Atomic Power Company has signed a contract with Electricity of Viet Nam to provide consultancy services for the proposed Ninh Thuan 2 nuclear power plant, under the Ninh Thuan nuclear power project.
Under the agreement, JAPC will provide a feasibility survey on construction and investment for Viet Nam's first nuclear power plant. The JPY 2 billion survey will be funded by the Japanese Government and directly disbursed by the Ministry of Economics, Commerce and Industry.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, EVN's general director Mr Pham Le Thanh said that Japan had been an important strategic partner, providing more financial support through official development assistance and export credits than any other foreign partner, amounting to JPY 420 billion.
Mr Thanh said that "Alone in the nuclear power sector, Japan has actively supported Viet Nam, providing information, training and study tours, public relations, legal advice and consultancy services for 15 years."
Japanese Ambassador to Viet Nam Mr Tanizaki Yasuaki said that the country wanted to help Viet Nam apply the most modern and safest technology in the nuclear power sector, contributing to the country's nuclear power plant development whilst learning from the tsunami in Japan in March 2010.
The Ninh Thuan 2 nuclear power plant will be located in Thai An Hamlet, Vinh Hai Commune, Ninh Hai District on a total area of 514 hectare. The plant will use 97 hectare of the plot of land. The plant will use light water moderated reactors for four turbine groups that can produce a combined 4,000 MW.
The USD 12 billion project is expected to start in 2014, with the first phase set to go into commercial operation by 2020. It is hoped to ease electricity shortages, serve the country's socio economic development, enhance national energy security and promote science and It is hoped to ease electricity shortages, serve the country's socio economic development, enhance national energy security and promote science and technology in the sector.
(Sourced from www.vietnamnews.vnanet.vn)
