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No to Atucha II. Yes to clean energies. (2005)
| Author | Taller Ecologistas, WISE, NIRS |
| Date | 2005 |
| Classification | 3.28.8.30/02 (ARGENTINA - ATUCHA 2) |
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From the publication:
Nuclear power station Atucha II A project that is on the wrong side of the road in the world debate on renewable and clean energies. Technical data - nuclear power station Atucha II Gross power: 745 MW Net power: 692 MW Characteristics: type PHWR reactor (Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor), with pressure recipient and heavy water as moderator and cooling device and combustible elements with natural Uranium or Slightly Enriched Uranium (ULE). Current Condition: construction suspended as from 1995. Project Progress: 800/0 Nuclear Power Station Atucha II (NPS-2) is placed a few meters away from the first station built in Latin America, Atucha I, over 100 Km northwest from the City of Buenos Aires, on the right bank of Paraná River and near Lima, a town in Zárate district, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. For the execution of Atucha II, started in 1981, a mixed company was created: ENACE (Empresa Nuclear Argentina de Centrales Electricas Sociedad Anónima) (Argentine Nuclear Company of Power Plants Corp.) formed by the National Commission of Atomic Energy NCAE (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica CNEA) (75%) and German Company SIEMENS (25%). Based on the document "Assessment and proposal of the National Commission of Nuclear Power" (June 2001) the following sequence of events for Atucha II project was created.
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