OREANDA-NEWS. June 23, 2008. A delegation of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam visited Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (branch of Rosenergoatom Concern, Leningrad region) on June 20 2008.

The deputy chief engineer for nuclear safety of Leningrad NPP K.Kudryavtsev told the guests about the results of the modernization of the plant and the prospects for construction of the substituting capacities of Leningrad NPP-2.

The Vietnamese parliamentarians showed special interest in the plant’s new safety systems, personnel training programs, local and full-scale simulators, radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel treatment system as well as the cost of the construction of the 1st and 2nd reactors of Leningrad NPP-2.

Professor Dang Vu Minh said in fluent Russian: “”We have come here to see your nuclear industry at work and to get additional information and experience so as to make a decision on the construction of the first nuclear power plant in our country.”

Presently, Vietnam is considering the possibility of building a 4,000MW nuclear power plant and launching uranium prospecting projects.

“These projects will take legal force only after being approved by the National Assembly. Presently, we are making a tour of the leading nuclear countries with a view to study their experience and to work out recommendations for our parliamentarians before they consider the projects. The final decision will expectedly be passed in 2009,” Vu Minh said.

In Russia the Vietnamese parliamentarians are also planning to visit a nuclear fuel production plant and to meet with the managers of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation and their Russian colleagues from State Duma.