Fears of Fukushima-type disaster forced Vietnam to ditch nuclear power plans, ex-president says

Vietnam last year abandoned plans to build the country’s first nuclear power plants with Japanese and Russian help due to heightened concern over nuclear energy in the wake of events such as the Fukushima nuclear disaster, according to former president Truong Tan Sang.
In an interview in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday, Sang, 68, said, “The situation in the world had changed. Because of the fluctuations of the world situation, the Vietnamese people were very worried, especially the…