On the afternoon of September 4, in Hanoi , General Secretary To Lam visited and chaired a working session with the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute. Also attending was Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
The working session took place in the context of Vietnam restarting its nuclear power development program from the end of 2024 and most recently the Politburo passed Resolution 70 on ensuring national energy security until 2030, with a vision to 2045, continuing to affirm the Party and State's viewpoint of paying special attention to promoting the application of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in economic fields.
Overview of the working session.
Established in 1979, the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute was formerly the Dalat Nuclear Research Institute (established in 1976). Through the process of development and change, the Institute now has 12 affiliated units: 03 management units and 09 research and development units, in Hanoi, Dalat, Ho Chi Minh City and Danang . The Institute currently has 768 officers, civil servants and employees, including 01 Professor, 15 Associate Professors, 81 PhDs and over 350 people with postgraduate degrees, many of whom are internationally recognized experts. The Institute is managing research infrastructure, with two large national-scale facilities: the Dalat Nuclear Reactor and the electron beam accelerator in Hanoi.
With the role and mission of becoming the leading research and development center in Vietnam and ASEAN in nuclear technology and atomic energy towards international status, in the coming time, the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute will determine a new mission after 50 years of establishment and development, focusing on mastering technology and contributing to the sustainable development of the country, while promoting comprehensive digital transformation in the management of the institute...
General Secretary To Lam speaks at the meeting.
Praising the outstanding achievements of the institute in recent times, General Secretary To Lam also stated that the Vietnamese atomic energy industry still faces many difficulties and challenges compared to the standards and international treaties to which we are a member. In this spirit, General Secretary To Lam suggested that in the coming time, the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute must unify its direction throughout, absolutely not trading safety for progress or scale, firmly building a safety culture as the foundation, while developing endogenous capacity to master each key component and international cooperation according to the principles of co-design, co-manufacture, co-operation, and co-management.
"Developing and applying nuclear energy must be a long-term strategy, requiring long-term vision, perseverance and a comprehensive approach from institutions, technological infrastructure to people. It is necessary to identify nuclear energy development as a long-term strategic goal of crucial importance in socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security. Nuclear energy development also contributes to enhancing the position and stature of the country. Building and developing nuclear power must ensure absolute safety for people and the environment of society, strictly following the instructions of international atomic energy agencies," General Secretary To Lam emphasized.
Delegates take souvenir photos.
The General Secretary also emphasized 9 major orientations for the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute to focus on implementing, including perfecting policy mechanisms to create favorable conditions for the development of the nuclear energy sector in line with the new situation, building a national program on nuclear technology and safety to ensure nuclear safety and security at international standards. In particular, building core scientific and technological capacity to deploy nuclear power and nuclear applications in a proactive and sustainable manner, improving capacity and coordination ability on nuclear radiation safety.
"I propose that the institute needs to digitally transform and fully manage data, connect the environmental radiation monitoring network, digitize data from equipment sources and perfect the model of transparent and controlled data disclosure to enhance social trust, apply technology to form maps of radioactive sources, AI tools to help assess risks by region; develop high-quality human resources, technical standards, implement a 3-tier training program for specialized training and training according to factory technology, linked with practice at the research reactor, and move towards localizing standards for measurement, certification, and training and developing nuclear human resources to ensure the inheritance and development of leading experts, attracting domestic and foreign experts," the General Secretary stated.
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