The first phase of a high-altitude nuclear research complex in Bolivia’s town of El Alto has begun pilot operation after an inaugural ceremony was held earlier this week, project developer Rosatom said.
The Russian sate nuclear corporation said pilot operation began for the centre’s first industrial facilities – a cyclotron radiopharmacy complex and a multipurpose irradiation centre.
Rosatom has been working on the $300m (€290m) project since 2017 when the Bolivian Nuclear Energy Agency and JSC State Specialised Design Institute, a Rosatom subsidiary, signed a construction contract.
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