A Seminar on Worldwide Radiation Monitoring Network and Automatic Radioxenon Measurement System was jointly organised by the INST of Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VINATOM), Phan Le Consultancy Technology and Equipment JSC (Phan Le Company) and a French representative from the Environment S.A Group (ESA) on 23 March 2017 at the INST.

The project, led by Tran Viet Phu in collaboration with colleagues at Nuclear Energy Center, Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology (INST) and at Nuclear Research Institute, Dalat (NRI), aims at verifying neutronic calculations using the deterministic approach (SRAC) and the Monte Carlo N-Particle transport code system version 5 (MCNP5) via two benchmark problems, and at investigating the neutronic characteristics of the VVER-1000/V392 reactor such as fuel rods, fuel assemblies and the full core in eight fuel loading cycles.

In the framework of bilateral cooperation between Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology (INST) of Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VINATOM) and Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Japan (FUJI), on September 23, 2016 the handover ceremony of the online environmental radiation monitoring system NAH provided by FUJI to INST took place at the Operation Centre for Environmental Radiation Monitoring and Early Warning Network, INST. Participants in the ceremony were Mr. Kuroki Tomohiro, Manager of Group III, Sales Department II, Energy Division, Sales Group; Mr. Rikiya Saga, Assistant Manager; Mr. Hiroyoki Mizuno, Assistant Manager from FUJI and Mr. Trinh Van Giap, Director of INST; Mr. Bui Dac Dung, Head of Planning and International Cooperation Department; Mr. Nguyen Quang Long, Director of Environmental Radioactivity Monitoring & Impact Assessment Centre and relevant staff from INST.

From 20 to 24 February 2017, under the Cooperation Program for Nuclear Human Resource Development between Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VINATOM) and Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), the Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology (INST) of VINATOM conducted the 4th Reactor Engineering Course. The lectures of the whole course were delivered by Vietnamese instructors and Japanese dispatched experts.