RoK experts told the symposium, hosted by the National Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (NARIME), that foreign partners supplied equipment for their first and second nuclear power plants, while domestic enterprises worked as subcontractors.

They said local contractors played larger parts in their third and fourth plants by joining foreign partners to carry out the projects. However, the following plants were undertaken through by RoK companies themselves, they said.

NARIME Director Dr. Nguyen Chi Sang pointed out Vietnam’s failure to complete a strategy on manufacturing equipment for nuclear power plants although it has planned to implement 11 projects of this kind.

Participants emphasised the need to work out tax incentives for local producers, thus encouraging them to get involved in building thermoelectric and nuclear power plants.

They held that Vietnam needs to accumulate more foreign expertise and accelerate the transfer of technology and personnel training before staring its first nuclear power project in central Ninh Thuan province.

Source VNA.