Russia and Vietnam Ink Roadmap to Advance Nuclear Technology Collaboration By CIOTech Outlook Team

Russia and Vietnam Ink Roadmap to Advance Nuclear Technology Collaboration

CIOTech Outlook Team | Thursday, 15 May 2025, 03:07 IST

Russian nuclear industry giant Rosatom State Corporation and Vietnam have entered into an interdepartmental roadmap for the period up to the year 2030. The document was signed earlier this week by Alexey Likhachev (Director General of Rosatom) and Nguyen Manh Hung (Minister of Science and Technology of Vietnam).

The roadmap concerns the construction of a nuclear science and technology center, the supply of fuel for the research reactor in Da Lat, the participation of the Vietnamese party in the Consortium “International Research Center based on the MBIR reactor” and education, training and personnel development for the Vietnamese nuclear industry.

“For decades, research has been the flagship activity of our cooperation. In the 1980s, Soviet specialists restarted a research reactor built by the Americans, and now Vietnamese specialists have ordered us a new research reactor. We have already entered the site in the south of the country, in Dong Nai province, near Ho Chi Minh City. And that is where a powerful, modern, and, presumably, the best research reactor in Southeast Asia will appear soon," Likhachev said.

With our team, we invite our colleagues to Dimitrovgrad to carry out research on our advanced multi-purpose fast reactor. Furthermore, this visit marks a transition to a new stage of cooperation, the project to build a large nuclear power plant. We proposed our “bestseller”, the VVER-1200 reactor. Negotiations must take place to illustrate the technical appearance, and finance. These negotiations began today. Certainly it would be a great honour, and responsibility to construct a flagship power reactor in Southeast Asia, however, here we are at the very beginning,” Likhachev said.