Argentina appears determined to reassert itself as a Latin American leader in nuclear power, and—on paper, at least—this year it plans to take major steps in that direction. The government of President Cristina Kirchner says that before 2011 is over, the country will complete its third nuclear-power plant, start construction on a fourth and begin producing enriched uranium. Those would be signal advances in the eight-year, US$3.5 billion effort Argentina launched in 2006 to reinvigorate a nuclear program that had been largely deprived of new investment for two decades. “We’re restoring to our country a right that we never should have renounced, which is to manage strategic nuclear resources,” Kirchner said in an October speech at a technical complex of... [Log in to read more]