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Vietnam to evacuate 1,288 households for construction of nuke power plants

Xinhua, June 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

A total of 1,288 households with a population of 4,911 are expected to be evacuated for construction of Vietnam's nuclear power plants.

The authorities have ratified a proposal on evacuation and resettlement of people in areas of Ninh Thuan 1 and 2 nuclear power plants in southern Ninh Thuan province, some 1,100 km south of Hanoi, local VNEconomy online newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Accordingly, the work of evacuation, which costs over 3.2 trillion Vietnamese dong (148 million U.S. dollars), will be completed by 2018.

Ninh Thuan 1, set to be Vietnam's first nuclear power plant, is expected to put into operation by 2024, while that of Ninh Thuan 2 by 2025. Endi