Moscow, 14th May 2025 – The document was signed by Alexey Likhachev, Director General of Rosatom, and Nguyen Manh Hung, Minister of Science and Technology of Vietnam.
The roadmap covers 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 side in the Consortium “International Research Center based on the MBIR reactor” and the training of personnel 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. For our part, we invite our colleagues to Dimitrovgrad to conduct research on our promising multi-purpose fast reactor. In addition, this visit has marked the transition to a new stage of cooperation – the project to build a large nuclear power plant. We offer our “bestseller” – the VVER-1200 reactor. Certainly, negotiations should take place to clarify the technical appearance and financial support. These negotiations have started today. It will certainly be a great honor and responsibility for us to build a flagship power reactor in Southeast Asia, but here we are at the very beginning of the journey,” Alexey Likhachev said, commenting on the signed agreement.