Argentina releases a plan for new nuclear investments

ByRod Adams

Argentina has a long history of involvement with nuclear power. Siemens (Germany) built one of its operating reactors while AECL (Canada) built the other one. There is a third plant that has been under construction for more than 20 years, with little progress made during recent years.

The announced plan includes upgrades to the existing reactors, an effort to complete the stalled plant, and the resumption of uranium mining and processing. According to a MercoPress page titled Argentina re-floats nuclear energy program the plan also includes the construction of a CAREM prototype.

(It was pretty cool to see that the very first return from a Google search with the terms “Argentina CAREM” returned a familiar article titled CAREM – An Innovative, Small PWR that I wrote in June, 2001, originally as a column for a webzine called Power Online.)

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Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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