Argentina to refine uranium
(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) BUENOS AIRES. Argentina has announced that it will build Latin America’s first plants to make heavy water, so that it can refine its own uranium deposits for atomic energy production. Captain Carlos Castro, director of the Argentine Atomic Energy Commission, told a news conference that the first plant would begin service in 1980, and a second one in 1984, He added that there were plans to build two more nuclear power plants in Argentina, and to provide technology for one in Peru. Argentina began using South America’s first nuclear power plant in 1974, after it I had been built by Siemens, the West German telecommunications company. The plans now announced will enable Argentina to refine its own uranium and to end its dependence on foreign suppliers. The counI try has uranium deposits in Mendoza, 660 miles west of Buenos Aires, at the foot of the Andes.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34151, 12 May 1976, Page 10
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