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Vietnam Nuclear Update

By Eric McErlain
Earler this week, we told you about Vietnam putting together a financing package to build that nation's first nuclear power plant. Now there's news that Japan is ready to help train plant personnel, and Russia wants to build the plant.

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Anonymous said…
Actually, this would not be the first nuclear power plant in Vietnam.
US armed forces abandoned a battlefield nuclear generator at the end of the American War.
May 20, 2006 at 5:56 PM
Anonymous said…
Could someone confirm gunter's comment? I know the US army experimented with developing a battlefield nuclear generator but I've never heard that one was ever deployed overseas.
May 22, 2006 at 12:52 PM
Anonymous said…
Maybe I just answered my own question (at least to the extent you can trust Wikipedia). According to the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Nuclear_Power_Program there were eight US Army reactors and several were deployed outside the US (Antarctica, Greenland, Panama Canal) but no mention of Vietnam.
May 22, 2006 at 1:46 PM
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