Ars hailed the arrival of 186 packages weighing 43 tons of the latest equipment to the Amazonian Andean country for the RB-01 nuclear research reactor of the Center for Research and Development in Nuclear Technology (Cidtn), based in the United States. City of Alto.
He said on social media about the arrival of those components at Santa Cruz Airport, which will later be transferred to El Alto.
A corporate memorandum from the Bolivian Nuclear Energy Agency (ABEN) confirmed on Monday that all the packaged components are at the Santa Cruz airport and will be transported in the coming days to the city of El Alto, where the two reactors are being built. The RB-01 reactor is scheduled to enter operation in mid-2025 and will be the highest reactor of its kind in the world (more than four thousand meters above sea level), with the aim of developing nuclear scientific research.
According to the text, these facilities will also create highly qualified human resources that will integrate the national scientific community.
The work is also designed to implement applications in the sectors of health, mining, water resources management and agriculture, and according to ABEN, due to its unique characteristics, the studies carried out in RB-01 will be an important contribution to science and technology at the global level.
The Bolivian nuclear program for peaceful uses is accompanied by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Bolivia is part of the Regional Cooperation Agreement for the Promotion of Nuclear Science and Technology in Latin America and the Caribbean, which aims to work together and coordinate in this area for the benefit of the population.
There is a contract for construction, equipment and human resources training with the Russian company Rosatom to launch the Cidtn project, which consists of four components.
These are the pre-clinical radiopharmacy cyclotron complex and the multipurpose irradiation complex, both of which are already in operation; the radiation ecology and radiobiology laboratories, which will soon be put into operation; and the nuclear research reactor complex, which is in the construction and assembly phase.
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