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* The Carem nuclear power plant is a mature design being developed by CNEA and INVAP in Argentina. It is a modular 100MWt/25MWe PWR with integral steam generators. The plant is designed to be used for electricity generation, as a research reactor or for desalination. Carem's primary coolant system is contained within the reactor pressure vessel. The plant is self-pressurised, relies entirely on convection, and uses standard 3.4%-enriched PWR fuel with burnable poison. The fuel is replaced annually.
* Argentina's Nuclear Regulatory Authority has a web page.
* Argentina's Atomic Energy Commission's web page is in Spanish -- Comisi—n Nacional de Energ’a At—mica, Repœblica Argentina, including an interesting weekly summary of articles in Argentine press on scientific, political, technical and economic matters related to things nuclear.
* Argentina defaulted on its $110 billion of foreign-currency debt in December 2001 amid a deep economic crisis.
Argentina links from IAEA
* Autoridad Regulatoria Nuclear (ARN)(Nuclear Regulatory Authority)
* Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica(CNEA)
* Secretariat for Science and Technology
* Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC)
* Centro Atomico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro
February 23, 2008
This is top story on front page of today's Folha de S.Paulo, of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Argentina and Brazil have agreed to joint construction of a new nuclear power plant.
August 10, 2005
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Argentina to boost relationship with Viet Nam
Vietnam Agency, Vietnam Economic Times
The Vice Foreign Minister of Argentina, Garcia Moritan, visited Viet Nam. He and Viet Nam's Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan agreed that the two nations should increase cooperation in a variety of areas, including nuclear energy use for peaceful purpose. They agreed the relationship should be enhanced through more high-level contacts, which began from the first official visit to Argentina by President Tran Duc Luong in November last year.
* 2005-03-24: Argentina: Uranium-Polluted Water Is Legally Safe to Drink
Marcela Valente, IPS
April 3, 2003 - France thinks Argentina is a prime prospective buyer of NP-300 reactors. These PWRs can be sized between 100 - 450 MW, and can be built in five years. Alain Bugat, administrator general of France's Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) told parliament that "the time has come to act" on building a lead unit of the design, which incorporates passive safety features including a core catcher.
March 25, 2003 - Electricite de France's electricity company subsidiaries in Argentina and Brazil were big money losers in 2002, contributing a billion or two Euros worth of red ink.
March 10, 2003 - Argentina was one of the main radioactive source producers urged to help in creatively addressing how to minimize the risks associated with radioactive source security. Garry Tittemore (director of the Office of Material Consolidation & Radiological Threat Response in DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration), called for new ideas in his presentation to European Nuclear Society meeting on research reactor fuel management.
November 15, 2002 - Argentina is one of the first three nations to ratify the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC).
October 18, 2002 - Construction of the Atucha-2 power plant (a 780-MWe pressurized heavy water reactor) is 85 percent complete, according to Roberto Cirimello, of Centro Atomico Bariloche, Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica (CNEA). Cirimello also told the Americas Nuclear Energy Symposium (ANES 2002) that Argentina is moving its UO2 conversion and pellet manufacturing to a mine site. Cirimello added that the engineering basic design and site approval are completed for the construction of a 27-MWe prototype CAREM reactor in Argentina, and the conceptual design of a 300-MWe CAREM Reactor is under evaluation.
* 2000 - In preparing the UNSCEAR 2000 report on "Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation", the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation sent every member nation a Survey of Exposures, asking expert quantification of the radiation exposures to populations in that nation from natural radiation sources. The respondent for Argentina was A. Curti (Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Buenos Aires).
