VN nuclear power: Safety to the top

Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang affirmed that Vietnam will only build nuclear power plants when ensuring safety for the environment and people's lives.

Consecutive incidents at Japan's Fukushima I nuclear power plant caused by earthquakes and tsunamis have made many people concerned about the safety of the first nuclear power plant planned by Vietnam. built in Ninh Thuan in 2014. However, leaders of functional agencies and scientists all affirmed that nuclear power plants built in Vietnam will be safer.

Vietnam nuclear power plant will be safer.

In the response to the newspaper SGTT, Associate Prof. Dr. Vuong Huu Tan, Director of the Atomic Energy Institute, said that Japan's Fukushima I nuclear power plant technology was built in the 70s, belonging to the second generation, still use the active safety features, ie the reactor cooling system that uses electrical energy from diesel generators in an emergency. Therefore, when the power is out, the emergency cooling system has not worked, leading to a loss of water, increasing the temperature and pressure of the reactor operating area, causing fire and explosion .

In Vietnam, according to the Minister of Industry and Trade, Vu Huy Hoang, the Resolution of the National Assembly affirmed that nuclear power plants in Ninh Thuan must use modern reactors of the 3rd or 3rd generation, operating dynamic according to passive safety principles. Therefore, if incidents occur such as at Fukushima I factory, the plant will automatically handle, without human impact as well as no need to use additional power sources, ensuring safety and economy.

This explanation was also organized by the Board of Preparation for Investment in Nuclear Power and Atomic Energy Project in collaboration with Ninh Thuan Provincial Farmers' Association, providing information to local people in two days and 17th. March 18 last.

In addition, in an interview published in the Industry and Trade newspaper, Minister Vu Huy Hoang also said that, besides the selection of technology, the site of building nuclear power plants in Vietnam was also calculated at The safety is very carefully based on many criteria, in which the safety criteria for people and environment will be top priority.

The Minister affirmed that in the process of developing feasible reports, the safety survey not only assesses the ground, geology, possibility of earthquakes but also cares about the possibility of being affected by seismic dynamic from the surrounding area. From now to 2014 is the time for research units to complete feasibility reports. Whether or not the project continues to work will depend on the research results in the feasibility report. If there are any factors that are not safe for people, it will not be implemented.

Minister Vu Huy Hoang also affirmed that nuclear power is an indispensable direction in the condition that traditional energy sources are increasingly exhausted, renewable energy sources such as hydropower, economic efficiency is not high. Meanwhile, nuclear energy is completely clean (in terms of exploitation and use), has been used very effectively in many countries around the world. The effects of incidents such as earthquakes and tsunamis can be minimized and prevented if designed in accordance with modern technology today. Vietnam's goal is to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes and to ensure maximum safety.