The 2006 Argentine nuclear reactivation plan is a project to renew and reactivate the development of

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. The main points of the plan were announced by the

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through Planning Minister Julio de Vido during a press conference on 23 August 2006. They include: * Finishing the incomplete

Atucha II Nuclear Power Plant The Atucha Nuclear Complex, or Atucha Nuclear Power Plant, is the location for two adjacent nuclear power plants in Lima, Zárate, Buenos Aires Province, about from Buenos Aires, on the right-hand shore of the Paraná de las Palmas River. Bo ...

, which was started in 1980, by 2011. , Atucha II was scheduled to start up in 2012. The plant began to produce energy on June 27, 2014. * Researching the feasibility of the construction of a new nuclear plant, the fourth in Argentina. * Extending the operational life of the Embalse power plant, originally projected to end in 2011. * Resuming the domestic production of

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. * Working on a prototype CAREM, a low-power nuclear reactor which could also be installed in one of the TR-1700 class submarines currently under construction. In 2010, an agreement was signed with

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(AECL) for the construction of Atucha III Nuclear Power Plant and the upgrade of Embalse A C$440m contract was signed in August 2011 for the refurbishment of Embalse from November 2013, which will add 25–30 years to its life.

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