Nuclear power in Argentina

In Argentina, about 10% of the electricity comes from 3 operational nuclear reactors: Embalse (a CANDU reactor), and Atucha I and II, two PHWR German designs also known as PHWR KWU as per PRIS. == History == Argentina had uranium mines, producing 2,582 tonnes until 1997. The Don Otto uranium mine in Salta was open between 1963 and 1981.