MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Anti nuclear station in Tierra del Fuego

Tierra del Fuego has granted land in the heart of the island to set a United Nations sponsored nuclear activities detection centre, which will be close to a new future city, Tolhuin, to be built in the area.

The anti nuclear station will be part of a world-wide net belonging to the United Nations International Monitoring System for the Prevention and Banning of nuclear explosions and tests, with seat in Vienna. Argentina is one of the fifty signatory countries of the system. The project consists in setting up sophisticated state of the art equipment to ensure that in a certain radius no kind of nuclear activity takes place.

"It's an agreement with United Nations to prevent nuclear proliferation and the use of biological weapons, as is clearly established in our provincial and federal Constitutions, plus the fact it's an international commitment of Argentina", indicated Tierra del Fuego's Deputy Governor Daniel Gallo.

According to the UN treaty the Tierra del Fuego station will be one of the seismological and infrasonic auxiliary units supporting the main International Monitoring System.

The infrasonic station in Tierra del Fuego next to the future city of Tolhuin will consist of underground sensors set out as a triangle, together with an analogical and electronic converter. Close to the station a meteorological tower will be erected, and all the information collected in real time will be sent to the Data bank in Vienna. Similar stations are programmed in other Argentine provinces.