Thai, Vietnamese Nuclear Plans Face Delays, Wood Mackenzie Says
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Southeast Asia’s first nuclear power plants, planned in Vietnam and Thailand by 2020, may be delayed by at least eight years because of a shortage of skilled workers and cheaper coal production, according to Wood Mackenzie Ltd.
The two countries will take longer to approve funding for nuclear plants compared with coal-fired ones, as well as to implement safety measures, Graham Tyler, head of the southeast Asian gas and power division at Wood Mackenzie, an Edinburgh, Scotland-based energy consultant, said in an interview in Singapore. The first plants are likely to be delayed until 2028 at the earliest, he said.