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The Prime Minister has approved the project for migration and resettlemen of Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Ninh Thuan province.

On March 9, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai chaired a meeting for considering the mechanisms to support investment in infrastructure construction of the Ninh Thuan province with an aim to contribute to socio - economic development, living stability of the people in the area under influence of the NPP construction.

On July 30, 2015, ASE – NIAEP Conjugate Company under Russian National Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom) and Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) signed a Framework Agreement for implementing construction of the first stage  of Ninh Thuan 1 NPP with the two units by 1,200MW each.

According to the Regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency  (IAEA), controlling  and operating the nuclear reactor built anywhere, is performed in the language of the reactor supply country. So, the language in Ninh Thuan 1 Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) will be Russian.

On December 12, in Ninh Thuan province, the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) held a ceremony of starting out the power supply system for constructing Ninh Thuan Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). The Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai – Head of the State Steering Committee of Ninh Thuan NPP attended  the ceremony and commanded to start out the project.

On 16 July 2015, in Vinh Hai commune, Ninh Hai district and Phuoc Dinh commune, Thuan Nam district, Ninh Thuan Provincial People's Committee and Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) held a ceremony for publishing Decision No. 6070 / QD-BCT of the  Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) on adjusting sites of Ninh Thuan 1 and Ninh Thuan 2 Nuclear Power Plants (NPP).

Deputy General Director of Rosatom, Vyacheslav Pershukov, said Vietnam is still in the stage of choosing nuclear power technology, while the investment rate can be calculated only after the completion of the design.

An Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS 2014) Mission  of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) including experts of the IAEA, France, Slovenia, the United States, Canada, The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Pakistan has a business trip to Vietnam to assess the second stage safety infrastructure of the Ninh Thuan nuclear power project (NPP).

Singapore – based renewables developer The Blue Circle and its Vietnamese partner TSV began construction of Dam Nai wind power plant on April 28 in Tan Hai commune, Ninh Hai district, the central province of Ninh Thuan.

On August 30, 2016, the construction of a 37MW wind power plant began in Phuoc Dinh commune, Thuan Nam district, south central Ninh Thuan province.

Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has been implementing component projects in preparation for the building of the Ninh Thuan Nuclear Power Plants, the first of their kind in Vietnam.

According to information from Vietnam  Machinery Installation Corporation (Lilama),  on  June 5th  in Bac Ninh City was held a signing ceremony on  Agreement of Cooperation between 69-1 Lilama Stock Company (Lilama, Vietnam) and Hitachi Plant Construction Company (Hitachi, Japan) in Nuclear Power Plant Construction.

According to the Vietnam News Agency, the UK nuclear power industry has just received a good new when one of the biggest corporation in Japan was closer to an agreement to built a nuclear power plant (NPP) worth 10 billion pounds in the Northwest of England.

BP Solar 1 solar power plant in the south central province of Ninh Thuan was inaugurated on January 20, becoming the first Vietnamese constructed project to get connected to the national grid so far.

Siemens will provide the equipment to upgrade the Hiep Phuoc 1 steam power plant in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to a combined cycle power plant. This project will increase the plant’s electrical capacity by roughly 780 megawatts (MW) to approximately 1,200 MW.