Supplying energy is a major challenge for Vietnam, but the country may delay a plan to build its first nuclear power plant. The Toy Che newspaper reported on Thursday that Prime Minister Gwent on Zong said that work on Vietnam's first nuclear power plant will probably have to be delayed until 2020. Zong reportedly said that the project requires the highest standards of safety. The paper said Zong told state-owned petrol Vietnam to ensure its plies enough gas to a plant power plant to make up for the energy shorefall caused by the postponement. The government plans to build the plant in the province of Ninh Thuan with the help of state-owned Russian energy firm Rosatom. Vietnam has chosen a Japanese consortium to help build a second nuclear power plant in the same province. It is not clear what effect a possible delay in building the first plant will have on plants for a second facility. Vietnam plans to build a total of seven nuclear plants by 2030, but the Vietnamese government has decided to take more time to train people to operate atomic power plants. Since the 2011 Fukushima Deiichi plant nuclear disaster in Japan.