OREANDA-NEWS. On June 18-20, 2007 representatives of Atomstoryexport CJC, led by First Vice President Alexander Glukhov, took part in the working meeting of the co-chairmen of the Russian-Vietnamese Intergovernmental Commission on Trade-Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation that took place in Moscow, reported the press-centre of ASE.

Nuclear power cooperation was one of the key topics at the meeting. The sides confirmed their interest in developing their cooperation on the peaceful use of nuclear energy on the basis of the inter-governmental agreement concluded in Mar 27 2002.

The ASE representatives took the Vietnamese delegates, led by Industry Minister Hoang Trung Hai, to ASE’s partner organizations: the Crisis Center of Rosenergoatom and Hydropress EDB. They told the guests about the capacities of the Russian companies building NPPs in Russia and abroad, the parameters of the Russian reactors, the advantages of the Russian WWER reactors and the experience of their operation in Russia.

The sides considered the possibility of cooperation on the construction of an NPP in the territory of Vietnam and on the training of highly qualified personnel for the Vietnamese nuclear power industry. Atomstroyexport confirmed its commitment to assist Vietnamese companies in building the first NPP in Vietnam on the basis of its experience and with the use of modern technologies.

The protocol of the meeting recommends the sides to intensify their contacts with a view to prepare for the construction of the first NPP and a new Nuclear Research Center in Vietnam, to help that country to train highly-qualified nuclear power engineers and to share experience with Vietnamese colleagues. For this purpose, the sides are going to hold technical consultations and to consider setting up a working group on nuclear power cooperation.

Atomstroyexport is the leading Russian organization implementing inter-governmental agreements on NPP construction abroad. Presently it is the only company in the world that is simultaneously building NPPs in three countries — China, India and Iran — and is starting to build an NPP with two WWER-1000 reactors in Bulgaria.