Embalse (in full, Central Nuclear Embalse) is one of the two operational nuclear power plants in Argentina. It is located on the southern shore of a reservoir on the Río Tercero, near the city of Embalse, province of Córdoba, 110 km south-west of Córdoba City. A nuclear power station. ... ... Córdoba is a province of Argentina, located in the center of the country. ... Downtown Córdoba. ...

The plant is a CANDU Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR). It employs natural uranium (that is, with 0.72% of ²³⁵U), with heavy water for refrigeration and moderation. It has a thermal power of 2,109 MWth, and generates 648 MWe of electricity, with a net output of about 600 MWe, supplying nearly 4.5% of the production of the Argentine Interconnection System (2005). The CANDU reactor is a Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor designed in the late 1950s and 1960s by a partnership between Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (now known as Ontario Power Generation), as well as several private industry participants. ... A pressurised heavy water reactor is a nuclear power reactor that uses unenriched natural uranium as its fuel and heavy water as a moderator (deuterium oxide D2O). ... Natural uranium (NU) refers to refined uranium with the same isotopic ratios as found in nature. ... Heavy water is dideuterium oxide, or D2O or 2H2O. It is chemically the same as normal water, H2O, but the hydrogen atoms are of the heavy isotope deuterium, in which the nucleus contains a neutron in addition to the proton found in the nucleus of any hydrogen atom. ... The watt (symbol: W) is the SI derived unit of power. ...

Additionally, Embalse produces the cobalt-60 radioisotope, which is employed in medicine (cancer therapy) and industrial applications. Argentina is one of the largest producers and exporters of this isotope in the world, along with Canada and Russia. Cobalt 60 is a Front 242 side project featuring Front 242s Jean-Luc de Meyer and Dominique Lallement. ...

Embalse was started in 1974 and began operation in 1984. It was built by an Italian-Canadian consortium formed by AECL and Italimpianti. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited or AECL is a Canadian federal Crown corporation with the responsibility to manage Canadian nuclear policy, promote nuclear energy and research, and to oversee nuclear waste developed by Canadian nuclear reactors as well as manage the decommissioning of older reactors. ...

See also

• Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica
• Atucha I nuclear power plant
• Atucha II nuclear power plant

Seal of the CNEA The Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica - CNEA (National Atomic Energy Commission) is the Argentine government agency in charge of nuclear energy research and development. ... Atucha I is one of two operational nuclear power plants of Argentina. ...

References

• ((Spanish)) CNEA
• ((English)) Nucleoeléctrica Argentina S.A.