Today, April 23, 2015, the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of Argentina had signed the Memorandum of Understanding, establishing a Framework for Cooperation between the parties in the field of construction the 6th unit of NPP with VVER Russian design with installed capacity to 1,200 MW on the territory of the Republic of Argentina.
The document was signed in the presence of President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and President of the Republic of Argentina Cristina Fern?ndez de Kirchner. The head of ROSATOM Sergey Kirienko and Argentinean Minister of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services Julio de Vido affixed signatures on the document.
In accordance with the Memorandum, the parties have determined as a main task a soonest signature of an Intergovernmental Agreement on the construction of NPP. According to Sergey Kirienko work on this document is already underway. ‘In Argentina we offer the latest atomic energy technologies Generation III+, which fully meet modern requirements of nuclear safety and which can be characterized by high economic efficiency. The unique Russian experience of NPP construction is known throughout the world and the high quality of these stations is confirmed in practice. I’m confident that the Agreement on which we are already working will be mutually beneficial, long-term oriented and meet the real possibilities of the Parties’, added the head of ROSATOM.
As part of the ceremony JSC Rusatom Overseas and the Argentinian nuclear energy company Nucleoel?ctrica Argentina S.A. (NA-SA, Argentina's nuclear power regulator) also signed Preliminary Project Development Agreement on the Nuclear Power Plant construction in Argentina. The document was signed by Dzhomart Aliev, the CEO of JSC Rusatom Overseas and Jose Luis Antunez, the President of Nucleoel?ctrica Argentina S.A. The document defines the scope of cooperation, rights and obligations of the Parties, financial and other terms of interaction during the development nuclear power plant construction project on Russian technologies in Argentina.
A day earlier, during the official visit of President Cristina Kirchner to the Russian Federation, TVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM have signed two Memorandums of Understanding with the National Atomic Energy Commission of Argentina and State Corporation INVAP S.E. These documents provide for a broad cooperation and joint initiatives on a wide range of issues of cooperation in the field of nuclear energy. In particular, including deliveries of low-enriched uranium fuel and its components for the research and power reactors in Argentina, supplies of TVEL-manufactured zirconium components of the nuclear fuel cycle, and joint research and development projects.
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Agreements on cooperation, reached today, are implemented in order to develop signed on July 12, 2014 Intergovernmental Agreement on the peaceful uses of atomic energy. This Agreement was signed during the official visit of Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, to Argentina and it found a basis for wide range of cooperation between the parties. On 1st March, 2015, the Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner delivered her annual speech at the opening of the Congress' ordinary session, where she announced the Government’s intention to cooperate with Russia.