Nucleoeléctrica Argentina
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Also known as NA-SA, Nucleoelectrica Argentina
Nucleoeléctrica Argentina S.A. (NA-SA) is the Argentine state company that operates the country's three nuclear power plants: Atucha I (1974), Atucha II and Embalse (1984). According to Spanish-language Wikipedia it is owned by the Ministry of Economy (80%) and the National Atomic Energy Commission, CNEA (20%). Embalse is a CANDU pressurised heavy-water reactor fuelled with natural uranium, which also produces cobalt-60 for medicine and industry, according to English Wikipedia.
- Sector
- Fission
- Technology
- Pressurised heavy-water reactor
- Role
- Utility, Operator
Terms
- Pressurised heavy-water reactor
- Heavy water (deuterium oxide) kept under pressure as both coolant and moderator, which absorbs far fewer neutrons than ordinary water and so lets the reactor run on natural, unenriched uranium. That is the CANDU design's defining trade: heavy water is expensive to produce, but the fuel needs no enrichment plant. Fuel is natural or slightly enriched uranium oxide, usually in horizontal pressure tubes, refuelled online without shutting the reactor down.
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- Nucleoeléctrica Argentina S.A.aggregator
- Nucleoeléctrica Argentina homepageoperator
- Embalse Nuclear Power Stationaggregator