The National Atomic Energy Commission (Spanish: Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, CNEA) is the Argentine government agency in charge of nuclear energy research and development.
The agency was created on May 31, 1950 with the mission of developing and controlling nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in the country.
CNEA's facilities include the Centro Atómico Bariloche (in San Carlos de Bariloche), Centro Atómico Constituyentes (in the city of Buenos Aires), and Centro Atómico Ezeiza (in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires Province). Research reactors exist in all of these sites.
Argentina currently has two operational nuclear power plants,: the 335-MWe Atucha I built by Germany's (Siemens) and the 600-MWe Embalse built by Canadian CANDU. A third one, the 692-MWe Atucha II, has been delayed by financial and political problems.
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