Vietnam is implementing 19 cooperation tasks with the IAEA in completely different areas, together with agriculture, healthcare, nuclear security and safety, and bodily and chemical sciences. The initiatives show how nuclear applied sciences can contribute to socio-economic growth.
Since turning into a member of the IAEA since 1957, Vietnam has actively participated in most worldwide conventions below the company’s framework.
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, stated Vietnam – IAEA cooperation displays the sustained efforts of generations of Vietnamese scientists to harness nuclear science and expertise for socio-economic growth.
She additionally reaffirmed the company’s dedication to supporting Vietnam in making certain the protection and safety of the peaceful use of atomic power, whereas encouraging the nation to interact extra actively in IAEA initiatives.
Between 2018 and 2023, the IAEA instantly supported 17 nationwide tasks in Vietnam, whereas the nation additionally joined 67 regional and interregional tasks below the Regional Cooperative Agreement (RCA) and different cooperation frameworks. The cooperation helped strengthen Vietnam’s human sources, improve its nuclear security and safety infrastructure, and advance the appliance of nuclear methods for socio-economic growth.
Since 2023, the IAEA and the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VINATOM) have labored collectively to evaluate and monitor marine air pollution and local weather change impacts alongside Vietnam’s shoreline. The mission helps the safety of fisheries sources, safeguards coastal livelihoods and improves early detection of marine air pollution.
Minister of Science and Technology Vu Hai Quan stated Vietnam locations nice significance on the event of nuclear science and expertise, viewing it as one of many key pillars of the nationwide power construction. He famous that nuclear science and expertise has delivered tangible advantages in agriculture, water useful resource monitoring, business, healthcare, and standardisation of measurement methods.
According to VINATOM President Tran Chi Thanh, Vietnam is increasing using radiation applied sciences in most cancers remedy, mutation breeding for crop growth, meals irradiation and sterile insect methods to manage pests affecting fruits corresponding to lychee and dragon fruit. The institute can also be selling analysis cooperation to broaden nuclear expertise applications for socio-economic growth.
VINATOM is a long-standing member of the IAEA’s Analytical Laboratories for the Measurement of Environmental Radioactivity (ALMERA) community. In 2026, VINATOM’s Nuclear Research Institute assumed a brand new function in a regional mission to coach laboratories throughout Asia-Pacific to use harmonised superior methods for measuring radioactivity in seawater, serving to guarantee dependable environmental monitoring and coordinated responses to air pollution incidents.
Nguyen Hoang Linh, Director of the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety below the Ministry of Science and Technology, stated the IAEA’s assist is especially essential as Vietnam implements its technique for the peaceful use of atomic power by way of 2035 with a imaginative and prescient to 2050, develops the Ninh Thuan 1 and Ninh Thuan 2 nuclear energy tasks, and builds a nuclear science and expertise analysis centre.
Vietnam and the IAEA have signed the Country Programme Framework (CPF) for technical cooperation in growing atomic power applications for 2022–2027. The two sides are getting ready the following cooperation framework, specializing in sensible, possible and precedence programmes that ship tangible advantages./.