Government unveils new nuclear policy focused on exports and foreign investment |
Javier Milei’s government has rewritten the guidelines of Argentina’s nuclear policy with the goal of prioritizing foreign investment and fostering high-value-added exports, as part of the Nuclear Plan the president launched in late 2024.
The shift was unveiled on Sunday at a ceremony marking the 76th anniversary of the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA). At the event, the Nuclear Affairs Secretariat Federico Ramos Nápoli presented a 54-page document laying out the case for a change in direction in Argentina’s nuclear development.
“Argentina has consistently produced world-class nuclear science and technology, but it hasn’t managed to turn that output into an industry of comparable scale,” the official text said.
The rationale for the new policy, it argued, “stems from that asymmetry: the sector holds assets whose capitalization was never completed, and the political task is to close the gap between available capacity and actual results.”
Argentina was the first Latin American country to build nuclear reactors for power generation back in the 1970s, in collaboration with the German firm Siemens. It is currently a regional leader in nuclear technology........