The Secretary of Nuclear Affairs, Federico Ramos Napoli, came up against the national deputy Adriana Serquis, former president of the CNEA, and accused her of lying about the state of the country's main nuclear projects. The response of Javier Milei's official disarmed the speech of the former Kirchner official, now a legislator of the Union for the Fatherland for Rio Negro, point
by point.
In an extensive disclaimer published on social networks, the official argued that the former head of the CNEA reported alleged abandonment of works that, she said, in several cases had not even been launched during the previous administration or had been directly left without funding. “The lightheartedness with which the congresswoman lies is touching,” Ramos Napoli said as she began her public response.
The disclaimer was based on an article published by Adriana Serquiz.
Among the cases mentioned, the life extension of Atucha I stood out, whose work, as he explained, began in September 2024, already under the current administration. He also said that the project for the dry storage of spent fuel elements had been found without funding and that it could only be reactivated during the second half of 2024. In both cases, the message of the ruling party was the same: the Government received slowed down initiatives and without allocated funds
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Ramos Napoli also charged against the Kirchner administration in CAREM 25, one of the most emblematic developments in the sector. As detailed, an audit carried out at the end of Serquis's administration concluded that the project did not present a degree of progress that would allow us to infer safe operation. In addition, he questioned the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars had been allocated to civil works without completing the engineering of basic components, a logic he described as another classic example of the disorder of the Kirchnerist era
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Regarding the RA-10 multipurpose reactor, the secretary recalled that its critical release had been promised first for 2019, then for 2021 and later for 2023, without any of those goals being met. He stated that during 2025 the work made record progress and that the official objective is to launch it early next year, while securing outstanding funds and also defining an operational scheme to allow
the commercialization of radioisotopes. The RA-10 complex, at the Ezeiza Atomic Center.
The official replica also included the Dioxitek plant in Formosa and the Neuquén Industrial Heavy Water Plant. In the first case, Ramos Napoli spoke of a project stopped, in debt and without funding. In the second, he reported years of maintenance without production or real reactivation plan
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While the Government of Javier Milei is committed to sorting the accounts and moving forward with viable projects, since Kirchnerism, questions persist that omit the state in which the works were found and the neglect of their passage through the State.
