MT News
Myanmar government has planned to start the small-scale nuclear power plant project in the next few years, said Deputy Minister for Information Maj Gen Zaw Min Tun.
Maj Gen Zaw Min Tun said: “The project is a result coming out from the visit to Russia of the Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. During the visit, Union minister for Electric Power and Union minister for Science and Technology and Russian state-owned Rosatom State Corporations signed the roadmap for cooperation. In that, nuclear energy can be used peacefully for the development of socio-economic life. It will be carried out for the development of human resources in all sectors. The first thing we will do is to build a small-scale nuclear power plant. The estimate that can be done is that it can happen within years.”
“The main thing is that we are going to use this nuclear energy peacefully. However, we will not do this without informing the public. The first step is to educate the public about the process of peaceful use of nuclear energy. We will work to achieve cooperation. It is planned to establish the nuclear technology information centre in Yangon,” he continued.
Myanmar will only use the nuclear power in a peaceful way and signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the field of nuclear energy training and skill development and a memorandum of understanding on cooperation to achieve positive public opinion on nuclear energy in July, 2022 as part of the process. Department of Atomic Energy under the Ministry of Science and Technology has to start working to establish nuclear technology information centre in Yangon by obtaining the public’s positive views on nuclear energy from the two memorandums.
