Russia and Vietnam Finalize Deal to Build the First of 12 Vietnamese Nuclear Reactors.

[NNadir]

Russia has signed an intergovernmental agreement with Vietnam for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in the Southeast Asian country. Construction of the Ninh Thuan 1 plant is scheduled to start in 2014.

The agreement was signed on 31 October in Hanoi by Sergey Kiriyenko, director general of Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom, and Vu Huy Hoang, Vietnam’s minister of trade and industry. It was signed in the presence of Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

The agreement calls for the construction by Rosatom subsidiary AtomStroyExport (ASE) of the Ninh Thuan 1 nuclear power plant at Phuoc Dinh in the southern Ninh Thuan province, as a turnkey project. The plant will comprise two 1200 MWe VVER pressurised water reactors. It will be owned and operated by state-owned Electricity of Vietnam (EVN).

Russia is to guarantee a loan for the construction, although the terms of the loan have not yet been agreed. In line with its agreements with Iran and Turkey, Russia will supply nuclear fuel for the new Vietnamese reactors, as well as removing used fuel for reprocessing.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Russia_to_build_nuclear_plant_in_Vietnam-0111104.html">Russia to build nuclear plant in Vietnam

The reactor will be rated at 1200 MWe.

In 2008, the entire "brazillion solar roofs" state of California produced http://www.energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/electricity_generation.html">843 GWh of electricity from solar energy, an amount which is actually - as the link shows - less than it produced in 2000.

843 GWh translates to an average continuous power output of 96 MWe, not counting that the solar power is unreliable and must be backed up by dangerous natural gas, including the dumping of dangerous natural gas waste into California's favorite dangerous fossil fuel waste dump, Earth's atmosphere.

Thus to produce as much energy as all of the solar plants in California constructed over the last 50 years can produce, the new Vietnamese nuclear plant would need to operate at 96/1200 = 8% capacity utilization.

This is relatively easy for nuclear plants to do, since, representing the most reliable form of energy in the world, most nuclear plants operate at close to 90% capacity utilization.

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[Taverner]

1. Reusable Waste is developing

Granted, not enough stability yet - but if you never had to throw away the uranium, just change the structure - it could be a good source.

[lib2DaBone]

2. China is moving ahead with 50 small package high-tech nuclear power plants...

France is building nuclear energy.

Unknown what the energy policy is in the U.S. Cheney kept it secret... and Mr. Obama has yet to talk about energy.. other than to say we need "Green" energy.

[joshcryer]

3. Vietnam is clearly about to start a nuclear weapons program.