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Ezeiza Atomic Center

The fuel cycle in Argentina has been designed to cover the requirements of the On-Load Nuclear Power Plants using natural or 0.85% enriched uranium fuel elements. The CONUAR S.A. Fuel Element Fabrication Plant with its three fabrication lines (Atucha type natural and enriched uranium fuel elements, and natural uranium Candu type), is where the whole line of fuel elements required by Atucha and Embalse Nuclear Power Plants is fabricated, using as raw material the uranium oxide produced at Cordoba's Conversion Plant.

Conuar S.A. has supplied the fuel elements for the Argentine nuclear power plants, which have generated over 10% of the electric power in our country over the last twenty years. CONUAR also provides Reactor and Nuclear Facility Services, Research Reactors Fuel Elements, reactivity control bars (cobalt targets), and several devices for the nuclear industry. In the industrial plant, located at Ezeiza, Buenos Aires, 35 km away from the City center, we assemble the fuel elements, and manufacture the Uranium pellets - both natural and lowly enriched , the structural components and the zircaloy claddings through the subsidiary FAE S.A.

CONUAR is located at the Ezeiza Atomic Center, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires; the Atucha-I Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is located in Lima about 100 km from Buenos Aires; the Embalse NPP and Córdoba Conversion Plant are located in different points of the Córdoba Province, far 800 km from CONUAR. From a point of view of safeguard's application, these installations are very narrowly related. In the Candu Reactor, fuel elements imported by CONUAR are also being used. In CONUAR are performed all metallurgical process required for the obtaining of the oxide uranium sintered pellets and the fuel elements assembling. In the particular case of Atucha's fabrication line, provided the new Atucha type fuel fabrication with enriched uranium be completed, at present it is working alternatively with natural and enriched uranium at 0,85%, upon the installation requirements.