Vietnam commences training for nuclear power plant operators.

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Toshiba funds training course on nuclear power technology
11:45' 22/10/2006 (GMT+7)
VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam Atomic Energy Commission (VAEC) has said that the first training course on nuclear power technology is being held in Hanoi to develop human resources for Vietnam's first nuclear power plant scheduled to be operational between 2017-2020.

The training course is jointly organised by VAEC, Hanoi University of Technology (HUT) and Japan's Toshiba Corporation.

Trainees include HUT final-year students majoring in nuclear technology and young researchers from VAEC, as well as the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety and Control.

Those trainees who score good marks at the end of the training course in November will be sent to Japan to pursue further study at its nuclear power plants.

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2006/10/625224/

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1. 10 years seems like a long time to build a reactor.

[NNadir]

2. Vietnam has no nuclear infrastructure.

They are doing the best they can. They have to build everything, including a nuclear professional base, from scratch. They're not Japan, where reactors can be built in 39 months.

They have not definitively decided on what kind of reactor they will build.

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2005/07/467289/

Once the reactors are ordered, I'm sure that they will be able to build them in a relatively timely fashion. I think though that only those nations which, like Japan, are continuously building reactors will be able to build them in under 4 years. In any case, the lead time for building reactors will never be zero. This is why action must commence as quickly as is possible. We don't have much time.

For Vietnam, I'm sure that this announcement is "as quickly as is possible."