Vietnam will establish their first neuclear power plant

Vietnam's Communist-dominated parliament on Wednesday brushed aside criticism and approved building the country's first nuclear power stations, a project keenly watched by potential foreign partners. The "draft law on nuclear electricity" was approved by 77 percent of deputies present in the single-chamber national assembly, said one deputy critical of the project, Nguyen Minh Thuyet. He described debate in the chamber as "lively" as some deputies preferred the idea of building just one power station, rather than the plan finally approved for four reactors at two sites. According to the government's plans, at least one reactor should be operational from 2020. Together, the four reactors should have a capacity of 4 ,000 megawatts. The intention is to meet the energy needs of an economy that is growing annually by an average of 15 percent.