The National Assembly of Vietnam, the country's top legislature, is expected to review and approve in May a plan on building two nuclear power plants with total capacity of 4,000 mw in southern Ninh Thuan province, the newspaper Youth reported Monday.
Construction of the two plants in Ninh Hai district and Ninh Phuoc district is scheduled to start in 2015 and complete in 2020.
Vietnam is encountering electricity shortage this summer since water levels in most reservoirs of hydroelectric plants nationwide are lower than those in the same period last year, and construction of new power plants is going behind schedule, the newspaper said.
The country is encouraging both foreign and domestic investors to invest in developing power plants, mobile phone and broadband Internet infrastructure, electrical equipment, iron ore mining and steel production, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told domestic and foreign business leaders in January.
He said the country will double its electricity capacity, currently standing at nearly 14,000 mw, by 2010.
Source:Xinhua
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