Nuclear Research Reactors

Vietnam To Upgrade Sole Nuclear Reactor
18 January 2007

VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY (HO CHI MINH CITY)— The Nuclear Research Institute (NRI) at Da Lat has temporarily shut down Vietnam’s only nuclear reactor for necessary repairs to its control system (see photo, right). According to that country’s National Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety and Control, the 500 KW nuclear reactor, which NRI has used for training and research for nearly a quarter of a century at the institute’s facilities in the central highlands province of Lam Dong, is getting its second upgrade in a decade courtesy of a combination of domestic and international funding. Foreign experts will supervise tests of the reactor in March 2007, and NRI will bring the reactor back on line in May 2007.
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