Vietnam and Russia sign an agreement to expand cooperation on nuclear energy

Vietnam and Russia inked an agreement to boost cooperation on nuclear energy during Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin’s two-day visit to Hanoi. The Southeast Asian country has been trying to revive its nuclear energy plans after it shelved building two nuclear power plants in 2016. The agreement was signed Tuesday between Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom and Vietnam’s state-owned power utility EVN. Hanoi and Moscow have had diplomatic relations since 1950 and have been close allies since the Cold War.