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Two Chinese nuclear plants for Argentina in a 15bn dollars deal

Tuesday, November 17th 2015 - 08:54 UTC
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Argentina signed two nuclear power plant construction deals with China on Sunday worth around US$15 billion, which would add 1,750 megawatts to the energy already produced by the country's three nuclear power plants. Read full article

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  • golfcronie

    Get your priorities right Argentina, pay the holdout companies the money you owe and then go nuclear

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 09:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    Argentina has already paid the debt ten times. All values of the West (politics, economics, hedge fund, hand outsourcing work) are corrupted by greed of a few and misery for many.

    Argentina as well as other third world countries should move away from Western terrorists.

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 10:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • KikeUshuaia

    @2, Well wel, so you agree Argentina is a 3rd world country then, hmmm.

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @2. This may be a good move. Has China agreed that the power plants will explode if argieland doesn't pay up?

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 02:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • zathras

    Argentina always makes a fuss when we send nuclear POWERED submarines down south.

    Rather Ironic.

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pensar

    Huh. These wont stop the power cuts. Every week we must suffer no electric which makes difficult to earn your living. What we want is better managing and les bribes. This will bring many new immigrations

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    @6 In England? With the new Chinese nuclear power plants?

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 02:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • chronic

    So things are kind of rough for rotting roadkill.

    Let's make'em tougher!

    Plague yourself with chinese engineering of some of the most unforgiving technology known to man.

    rotting roadkillian judgement - the gift that just keeps giving.

    lol

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 04:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    Sounds like a Dr.Faustus type of deal.

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pensar

    This is takeover stealth.

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    And the trolls told us The Dark Country were world leaders when it comes to nuclear power plants: design, build and operate no less!

    Pity they managed to fuck up the one that Australia had to 'repair' cracks in the tank and including the pellet magazines (acting as control rods FFS) which suffered from a schoolboy howler with the design.

    The Chink ones will be far too close to where I live though and as “More than 60% of the supplies will be Argentine manufactured” we can only hope that the 'K's scum have no hand in it and 'modify' the spec to 'improve' costs, aka as graft.

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    China should not build nuclear power plants in Argentina,

    You should never ever give matches to children, as they will either burn themselves, or someone else may get hurt,

    just my opinion.

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    ChrisR - the 'what' ones will be far too close to where you live ??

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    A Chinese nuclear plant. With Argentine fingers in the operation.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    We are reminded of the massive failure of a power plant in Sta Cruz province, next door to the Río Turbio coal mines. Spent 700 million dollars. It seems as though there was a problem with the coal there. Not enough of it could be mined, and it was of such poor quality that it produced mostly ash instead of energy. And ooops.....naturally they had no idea what they were going to do with the tonnes of ash that the plant was going to produce. The last I heard they were using diesel to power the plant.... that was designed to burn the local coal ! And now I hear they are trying to convert it to burn natural gas which has to be brought from a considerable distance. And operating at just half capacity it would take about 65,000 cubic feet per hour to operate, and for precious few customers who of course will receive enormous subsidies. Oh, and over a year to make the conversion to gas, at enormous conversion expense.

    Argentina.... such a fantasy land.

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 08:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • El Diego

    A strategic coup by the Argentine government and an excellent vote of confidence in the Argentine economy from our key strategic partner. Well done.

    Nov 17th, 2015 - 09:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jonaz_BsAs

    Macri must stop this shenanigan. “Vende patria” muy a$$.

    Nov 18th, 2015 - 12:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    Wait until China discovers that Argentina has no intention of actually paying for the power plants.

    CFK: ¿Serán todos de “La Cámpola” y vinieron sólo por el aloz y el petlóleo?

    Such a cunning diplomat.

    Nov 18th, 2015 - 12:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 13 Still no Vestige of a brain

    I live in Uruguay, don't you remember that?

    These disasters in waiting will be built near to Uruguay (in real terms).

    Forgotten about Chernobyl already? The UK had radiation fallout from that one as did many millions of non-Russians and look how far that was.

    Got it now or do you need to have your brain examined, there are some really powerful microscopes today you know?

    Nov 18th, 2015 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    ChrisR - the second word of the third paragraph of you post #11.
    Interesting term, to what does it refer ?

    Nov 18th, 2015 - 02:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 19 No Vestige of a brain

    I thought you were Argentine yet you don't know about the fiasco with the INVAP open pool low / no power reactor they built for medical purposes in Australia?

    Plenty of references on the Aussie sites.

    I can see TMBOA cutting off your choripan for admitting to that.

    Nov 18th, 2015 - 05:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    Disappointing.

    Oh well, at least it will be interesting to see whether mercopress stands by such terms being used on their site, or whether they consider Chris a Racist.

    man, this is hard to call.

    Nov 18th, 2015 - 08:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • El Diego

    its the poor upbringing he had

    Nov 18th, 2015 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • 313toBioBio

    It shows how insolvent china is. Their foreign policy is a fraud. All ofbthis comes unddr review if argentina returns to rule of law. Kicilloff is a laughing zionist that stole billions of dollars

    Nov 19th, 2015 - 07:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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