SOUTH EAST ASIA LOOKS TO NUCLEAR ENERGY DESPITE EARTHQUAKE FEARS
July 1st, 2011
BY MARIANNE BROWN and KEITH NUTHALL
A CHINK of light in the gloom spread over the nuclear industry by Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster can be seen to the south, where south-east Asian governments seem keen to push ahead with their nuclear expansion plans regardless. The Vietnamese government in particular is still keen to use nuclear power as a way to diversify energy sources, according to one senior government official. Conventional fuels needed to underpin Vietnam's rapid economic expansion are running out, said Mr Le Doan Phac, deputy director of the ...
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