Cooperation between Vietnam and the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) displays the long-standing efforts of generations of
Vietnamese scientists to harness nuclear science and technology for
socio-economic improvement, the Government News quoted Ms. Najat Mokhtar, IAEA
Deputy Director Genenral and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and
Applications as reporting on July 17.
Vietnam is at the moment implementing 19 cooperation initiatives
with the IAEA in areas together with agriculture, healthcare, nuclear security and safety,
physics, and chemistry, in keeping with the information supply.
These initiatives have demonstrated the numerous advantages of
nuclear science and technology in on a regular basis life, starting from defending water
sources and strengthening meals safety to establishing requirements for
business and healthcare.
Vietnam has been an official member of the IAEA since 1957
and actively participated in most worldwide conventions below the Agency’s
auspices.
She reaffirmed the IAEA’s dedication to supporting Vietnam
in guaranteeing the security and safety of the peaceable makes use of of nuclear power and
inspired the nation to take part extra actively within the Agency’s
initiatives.
Ms. Mokhtar famous that through the 2018–2023 interval, the IAEA
immediately supported 17 nationwide initiatives in Vietnam, whereas the nation additionally
participated in 67 regional (RCA and non-RCA) and interregional initiatives. These
initiatives have helped strengthen the nation’s human sources, improve its
nuclear security and safety infrastructure, and promote the applying of
nuclear strategies for socio-economic improvement.
One notable space of cooperation is water useful resource
administration. Since 2023, the IAEA and the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute
(VINATOM) have collectively applied initiatives to evaluate and monitor marine
air pollution and the impacts of local weather change alongside Vietnam’s shoreline. The
collaboration has immediately supported efforts to guard fisheries sources,
safeguard coastal livelihoods, and allow the early detection of air pollution
dangers.
Minister of Science and Technology Vu Hai Quan mentioned Vietnam
attaches nice importance to creating nuclear science and technology,
contemplating it one of the important thing pillars of the nation’s power sector.
He famous that nuclear science and technology has delivered
tangible advantages throughout a number of sectors, together with agriculture, water
useful resource monitoring, business, healthcare, and the standardization of
measurement techniques consistent with worldwide requirements.
According to Tran Chi Thanh, President of VINATOM, Vietnam
is selling the applying of radiation applied sciences in healthcare,
significantly for most cancers prognosis and remedy, in addition to in agriculture
by mutation breeding, meals irradiation, and pest management utilizing the sterile
insect method for crops resembling lychee and dragon fruit. The institute is
additionally increasing analysis cooperation and the applying of nuclear applied sciences
throughout numerous sectors to help socio-economic improvement.
VINATOM has lengthy been a member of ALMERA, the IAEA’s international
community of analytical laboratories for measuring environmental radioactivity.
In 2026, the Da Lat Nuclear Research Institute, below
VINATOM, assumed a brand new position in a regional mission to coach laboratories throughout
the Asia-Pacific area in making use of harmonized superior strategies for
measuring radioactivity in seawater.
The initiative goals to strengthen confidence in marine
environmental monitoring. When one nation experiences that its marine setting
is secure, neighboring international locations can depend on these findings as a result of all
collaborating laboratories use harmonized measurement strategies. If contamination
is detected, international locations throughout the area can coordinate extra successfully utilizing
standardized methodologies.
The Da Lat Nuclear Research Institute has additionally participated
in initiatives assessing the carbon sequestration capability of mangrove forests and
seagrass ecosystems, contributing to local weather resilience efforts that immediately
profit communities within the Red River Delta and the Mekong Delta.
Mr. Nguyen Hoang Linh, Director General of the Agency for
Radiation and Nuclear Safety below the Ministry of Science and Technology, mentioned
that as Vietnam implements its Strategy for the Development and Application of
Atomic Energy for Peaceful Purposes to 2035, with a imaginative and prescient to 2050, alongside
the Ninh Thuan 1 and Ninh Thuan 2 nuclear energy initiatives and the development
of the Nuclear Science and Technology Research Center, continued help from
the IAEA might be essential for strengthening the nation’s regulatory capability,
creating human sources, and guaranteeing nuclear security and safety.
Vietnam and the IAEA have signed the Country Program
Framework (CPF) for Technical Cooperation within the Development and Application of
Atomic Energy for the 2022–2027 interval. Looking forward, the 2 sides will
proceed to formulate the following CPF, specializing in precedence areas which are
sensible, possible, and succesful of delivering tangible advantages.