Ninh Thuận 1 Nuclear Power Plant

The Ninh Thuận 1 Nuclear Power Plant is a planned nuclear power plant at Phước Dinh in Thuận Nam District, Khánh Hòa province, Vietnam. Plans for it were cancelled in 2016. It will consisted of two 1,200 MWe VVER pressurised water reactors. The plant was to be built by Atomstroyexport, a subsidiary of Rosatom, and to be owned and operated by state-owned electricity company Vietnam Electricity. Fuel will be supplied and used fuel will be reprocessed by Rosatom. The feasibility study was to be carried out by E4 Group. The plant would have been built based on a nuclear power development plan, approved by the Vietnamese government in 2007. In 2009, Vietnam's National Assembly approved a resolution on investment policy for the project. On 31 October 2010, Vietnamese government and Rosatom signed a construction agreement. Works to prepare the construction site started in December 2011. Construction was to start by 2014 and the first unit to be commissioned by 2020. However, in 2014, the Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng announced that the construction would be postponed until 2020 to ensure the highest degree of safety. The construction was supposedly financed by the US$8 billion loan from Russia. In 2024, the National Assembly of Vietnam approved the resumption of the nuclear power program in Ninh Thuận, largely as continuation of the frozen project. In early 2026, Vietnam and Russ

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