Vietnam’s industry minister has told the national assembly developing nuclear power is an “inevitable trend” around the world, signalling that authorities may be considering resuming a plan to construct nuclear power plants after the programme was suspended six years ago.
The Southeast Asian country, a regional manufacturing hub, shelved a plan to build its first two nuclear power plants in 2016 following the Fukushima disaster in Japan and due to budget constraints.
“Developing nuclear power is an ongoing inevitable trend in the world,” Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien told the National Assembly on Monday, according to a statement posted on the government’s website.
