Vietnam
Vietnam is a signatory of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has signed and ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), being one of the 44 listed countries needed to sign and ratify for the CTBT to enter into force.
The Vietnam National Assembly's National Energy Plan has included at least 2,000 MWe of nuclear power capacity to be started by 2010. This follows a feasibility study in 2002, and establishment of nuclear cooperation agreements with Russia and South Korea - the former related principally to its 500 kW Da Lat research reactor.
In February 2006 the government boldly announced that a 2,000 MWe nuclear power plant would be on line by 2020. A feasibility study for this is due to be completed in 2008 and formal approval would then be required.
Read the profile on Vietnam from the Model Nuclear Inventory (pdf), produced by the Reaching Critical Will project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
