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VN, Indonesia set up strategic partnership
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UPDATED : 06/28/2013 12:15 GMT + 7
President Truong Tan Sang and his wife (2nd and 1st L) received by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife in Jakarta on June 27, 2013
During their talks in Jakarta on Thursday, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and visiting Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang agreed to boost the two countries’ relations into a strategic partnership.
President Yudhoyono agreed to soon set up a Vietnam-Indonesia Friendship Association to enhance the mutual understanding of the two countries’ people.
The two presidents shared the view that both countries will make stronger efforts to increase two-way trade from more roughly US$4.6 billion in both 2011 and 2012 to US$5 billion by 2015 and $10 billion by 2018. In the first six months of 2013, the two countries’ two-way trade reached $2.1 billion.
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UPDATED : 06/28/2013 12:15 GMT + 7
President Truong Tan Sang and his wife (2nd and 1st L) received by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife in Jakarta on June 27, 2013
During their talks in Jakarta on Thursday, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and visiting Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang agreed to boost the two countries’ relations into a strategic partnership.
President Yudhoyono agreed to soon set up a Vietnam-Indonesia Friendship Association to enhance the mutual understanding of the two countries’ people.
The two presidents shared the view that both countries will make stronger efforts to increase two-way trade from more roughly US$4.6 billion in both 2011 and 2012 to US$5 billion by 2015 and $10 billion by 2018. In the first six months of 2013, the two countries’ two-way trade reached $2.1 billion.
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Vietnam's defense chief Do Ba Ty (right) with Army General Martin Dempsey at the Pentagon June 20 2013. Photo courtesy of Vietnam News Agency
historic handshake (Nov. 9, 1995) Robert McNamara, the former US defence chief with the retired General of the Vietnamese Army Võ Nguyên Giáp, two former enemies in the second Indochina war.
old pic of Robert McNamara, the architect of Vietnam war
old pic of Vietnamese Army General Võ Nguyên Giáp, the founder of Vietminh and the Vietnamese People´s Army
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_ ITAR-TASS News inform that Admiralty Shipyard commitment will assigned two Submarine for Vietnam Navy in this year (9/2013).
_ They also laid first keel for 6th Submarine for VPA Navy in June - 2013.
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Vietnamese Air force has completed upgrade two S-300 system to PMU2+++ standard
_ They also laid first keel for 6th Submarine for VPA Navy in June - 2013.
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Vietnamese Air force has completed upgrade two S-300 system to PMU2+++ standard
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2,000ton FFG vs 4,000ton FFGVPA Navy's Gepard 3.9 frigate - HQ-11 vs PLAN's Type 054A frigate - 570(repost with higher resolution)
After 20x 054A project(current 16x in PLAN,4x building) and China start to build 054B class next year ...
Air Forces of Vietnam Navy
On 3/7, Department of Defense organizations has been handover Brigade 954 from the Air Force and Air Deference Forces to the Vietnam Navy and the Navy announced its decision to set up a helicopter Regiment 930, Division 372 under command of Vietnam Navy.
Lieutenant General Vo Van Tuan, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Vietnam People's Army led Navy commander, Air Defense - Air Force, Army Command Region 5 and Da Nang City People's Committee to attend.
Brigade 954 Air Force was handed over to the Navy decision on 25/6 of the Defence Minister. Earlier, the Minister has signed a decision on the reorganization of the 954th Regiment of the Air Force Air Force Brigade 954. Naval Aviation Brigade 954 can perform the following tasks: The War submarine hunting, military transport, reconnaissance, aerial observation, on the ground, on the water, search and rescue at sea, on land and rescue, salvage and flood prevention.
Once established, 930 Regiment helicopter flying observation missions; directive target reconnaissance aerial, ground and surface water; duty military transport Central Region - Southern Highlands and Gulf Tonkin special flights for the Party, State and Army and participate in search and rescue, salvage, flood control, ready to perform combat tasks and assist synergistic firing line not for the armed forces has ordered the army and organize transfer of flight training for helicopter pilot trainee officers of the Air Force ...
According to the People's Army
On 3/7, Department of Defense organizations has been handover Brigade 954 from the Air Force and Air Deference Forces to the Vietnam Navy and the Navy announced its decision to set up a helicopter Regiment 930, Division 372 under command of Vietnam Navy.
Lieutenant General Vo Van Tuan, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Vietnam People's Army led Navy commander, Air Defense - Air Force, Army Command Region 5 and Da Nang City People's Committee to attend.
Brigade 954 Air Force was handed over to the Navy decision on 25/6 of the Defence Minister. Earlier, the Minister has signed a decision on the reorganization of the 954th Regiment of the Air Force Air Force Brigade 954. Naval Aviation Brigade 954 can perform the following tasks: The War submarine hunting, military transport, reconnaissance, aerial observation, on the ground, on the water, search and rescue at sea, on land and rescue, salvage and flood prevention.
Once established, 930 Regiment helicopter flying observation missions; directive target reconnaissance aerial, ground and surface water; duty military transport Central Region - Southern Highlands and Gulf Tonkin special flights for the Party, State and Army and participate in search and rescue, salvage, flood control, ready to perform combat tasks and assist synergistic firing line not for the armed forces has ordered the army and organize transfer of flight training for helicopter pilot trainee officers of the Air Force ...
According to the People's Army
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VN returns 11kg of highly-enriched uranium to Russia
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UPDATED : 07/04/2013 12:31 GMT + 7
Vietnam has returned the last remaining 106 highly enriched uranium (HEU) fuel assemblies (FAs), weighing 11 kilograms, from the Da Lat Nuclear Research Institute to Russia, the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute reported.
The return was completed on Wednesday, July 3, when the FAs was transported to Russia on a Russian AN-124-100 cargo plane, said Dr Nguyen Nhi Dien, deputy head of the institute and head of the Da Lat Nuclear Research Institute.
In order to load the HEU onto a plane safely for return, eight experts from Russia, the US and the Czech Republic, as well as 16 Vietnamese engineers from the Da Lat Nuclear Research Institute, worked together for nearly a month, Dien said.
This is the result of the cooperation between the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM), and the United States' National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
Le Vinh Vinh, deputy director of the Institute’s Reaction Center, said that in 2009 the institute returned 36 HEU fuel assemblies (36 percent of U-235) to Russia.
Those HEU FAs had not been used before being returned so transfer was easy, Vinh said.
Meanwhile, the 106 FAs that were returned on July 3 were completely different, since they had been placed in the reactor since 1983, when the former Soviet Union manufactured and supplied them for the institute.
After 28 years of being used, they were handled to reduce their radioactivity, but the radioactivity remains high and can cause major problems if a leak occurs, Vinh said.
In order to ensure safety for the return process, a 12-ton container with30 cm thick walls was sent to Da Lat from the Czech Republic to hold the FAs.
Security was tightened before and during the return to ensure safety until the Russian plane took off, Dr Dien said.
With this shipment, Vietnam became the eleventh country, after Romania and the Czech Republic, from which all HEU has been removed since US President Barack Obama’s 2009 announcement in Prague of an international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world.
“After these HEU FAs are returned to Russia, their uranium enrichment levels will be lowered to make them suitable for use for civil purposes, Dien said.
In response to speculation spread online that the returned 11 kg uranium is equal to the material needed for half of an atomic bomb, experts from the Da Lat Reactor Center rejected the rumors as groundless.
“It is unlikely for HEU fuel assemblies 36 percent of U-235 tio be sued to produce atomic bomb. According to current technologies, the enrichment level must be more than 80 percent,” Dr Dien said.
VN returns 11kg of highly-enriched uranium to Russia | Tu
In VN news, its said 16 kg instead of 11 kg.
in fact : No one can check our enrichment level, thats why it has a rumor of making Nuke bomb in VN during Cold war
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UPDATED : 07/04/2013 12:31 GMT + 7
Vietnam has returned the last remaining 106 highly enriched uranium (HEU) fuel assemblies (FAs), weighing 11 kilograms, from the Da Lat Nuclear Research Institute to Russia, the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute reported.
The return was completed on Wednesday, July 3, when the FAs was transported to Russia on a Russian AN-124-100 cargo plane, said Dr Nguyen Nhi Dien, deputy head of the institute and head of the Da Lat Nuclear Research Institute.
In order to load the HEU onto a plane safely for return, eight experts from Russia, the US and the Czech Republic, as well as 16 Vietnamese engineers from the Da Lat Nuclear Research Institute, worked together for nearly a month, Dien said.
This is the result of the cooperation between the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM), and the United States' National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
Le Vinh Vinh, deputy director of the Institute’s Reaction Center, said that in 2009 the institute returned 36 HEU fuel assemblies (36 percent of U-235) to Russia.
Those HEU FAs had not been used before being returned so transfer was easy, Vinh said.
Meanwhile, the 106 FAs that were returned on July 3 were completely different, since they had been placed in the reactor since 1983, when the former Soviet Union manufactured and supplied them for the institute.
After 28 years of being used, they were handled to reduce their radioactivity, but the radioactivity remains high and can cause major problems if a leak occurs, Vinh said.
In order to ensure safety for the return process, a 12-ton container with30 cm thick walls was sent to Da Lat from the Czech Republic to hold the FAs.
Security was tightened before and during the return to ensure safety until the Russian plane took off, Dr Dien said.
With this shipment, Vietnam became the eleventh country, after Romania and the Czech Republic, from which all HEU has been removed since US President Barack Obama’s 2009 announcement in Prague of an international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world.
“After these HEU FAs are returned to Russia, their uranium enrichment levels will be lowered to make them suitable for use for civil purposes, Dien said.
In response to speculation spread online that the returned 11 kg uranium is equal to the material needed for half of an atomic bomb, experts from the Da Lat Reactor Center rejected the rumors as groundless.
“It is unlikely for HEU fuel assemblies 36 percent of U-235 tio be sued to produce atomic bomb. According to current technologies, the enrichment level must be more than 80 percent,” Dr Dien said.
VN returns 11kg of highly-enriched uranium to Russia | Tu
In VN news, its said 16 kg instead of 11 kg.
in fact : No one can check our enrichment level, thats why it has a rumor of making Nuke bomb in VN during Cold war
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VN returns 11kg of highly-enriched uranium to Russia
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UPDATED : 07/04/2013 12:31 GMT + 7
Vietnam has returned the last remaining 106 highly enriched uranium (HEU) fuel assemblies (FAs), weighing 11 kilograms, from the Da Lat Nuclear Research Institute to Russia, the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute reported.
The return was completed on Wednesday, July 3, when the FAs was transported to Russia on a Russian AN-124-100 cargo plane, said Dr Nguyen Nhi Dien, deputy head of the institute and head of the Da Lat Nuclear Research Institute.
In order to load the HEU onto a plane safely for return, eight experts from Russia, the US and the Czech Republic, as well as 16 Vietnamese engineers from the Da Lat Nuclear Research Institute, worked together for nearly a month, Dien said.
This is the result of the cooperation between the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM), and the United States' National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
Le Vinh Vinh, deputy director of the Institute’s Reaction Center, said that in 2009 the institute returned 36 HEU fuel assemblies (36 percent of U-235) to Russia.
Those HEU FAs had not been used before being returned so transfer was easy, Vinh said.
Meanwhile, the 106 FAs that were returned on July 3 were completely different, since they had been placed in the reactor since 1983, when the former Soviet Union manufactured and supplied them for the institute.
After 28 years of being used, they were handled to reduce their radioactivity, but the radioactivity remains high and can cause major problems if a leak occurs, Vinh said.
In order to ensure safety for the return process, a 12-ton container with30 cm thick walls was sent to Da Lat from the Czech Republic to hold the FAs.
Security was tightened before and during the return to ensure safety until the Russian plane took off, Dr Dien said.
With this shipment, Vietnam became the eleventh country, after Romania and the Czech Republic, from which all HEU has been removed since US President Barack Obama’s 2009 announcement in Prague of an international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world.
“After these HEU FAs are returned to Russia, their uranium enrichment levels will be lowered to make them suitable for use for civil purposes, Dien said.
In response to speculation spread online that the returned 11 kg uranium is equal to the material needed for half of an atomic bomb, experts from the Da Lat Reactor Center rejected the rumors as groundless.
“It is unlikely for HEU fuel assemblies 36 percent of U-235 tio be sued to produce atomic bomb. According to current technologies, the enrichment level must be more than 80 percent,” Dr Dien said.
VN returns 11kg of highly-enriched uranium to Russia | Tu
In VN news, its said 16 kg instead of 11 kg.
in fact : No one can check our enrichment level, thats why it has a rumor of making Nuke bomb in VN during Cold war
Make a nuclear bomb, and China shall sanction you. If you launch nuclear missiles (Which I doubt Vietnam has expertise on nuclear warhead miniaturization) on China, China will retaliate.
Anyway, Vietnam is years behind China in nuclear technology.
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China nuclear technology is just a cheap copy from Soviet or USA when we were taught secretly by Soviet big bro during cold war coz we were Soviet's ally
if we didnt make nuke bomb, then we wouldnt need nuke capable missile like Shaddock
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Whatever 16kg or 11kg highly-enriched uranium, they'r only 36% purity far far away for 80% nuclear weapon-level.VN returns 11kg of highly-enriched uranium to Russia
In VN news, its said 16 kg instead of 11 kg.
in fact : No one can check our enrichment level, thats why it has a rumor of making Nuke bomb in VN during Cold war
I'm just curious what Vietnam did by using these HEU fuel assemblies in 1983 ?
1983 former S.U provided 106 36% FAs to Vietnam, now 2013 Vietnam still return 36% uranium to Russia. At least we know Vietnam didn't get the nuclear centrifugal machines(ofcourse no country could export it) and can't purify weapon-level uranium, or must less than original weight.
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to made nuke warhead of course, 36% is just a news to please China and our ASEAN neighbours, China cant check it. We were not so crazy when sided with Soviet to fight against China without possessing nuke bomb
Soviet sent many secret machines to VietNam during cold war, who knows they sent nuclear centrifugal machines and assembled them in secret place VN or notcnleio said:
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