Areas of the ill-fated Juraguá Electronuclear Power Plant (CEN), located in the province of Hundred fireswere inspected in the middle of this month by specialists from the International Organization for Atomic Energy (IAEA) in order to assess aspects related to the decommissioning status of the facility.
Engineer Jorge Luis Paredes, from the Environmental Regulation and Safety Office (ORSA), told the Cuban News Agency that the inspectors “verified the high professional degree and transparency of the Cuban authorities in their management and were familiar with the mechanism and the domestic controls established in the matter of nuclear safeguards.”
Receives #Cuba safeguard inspection of the @iaeaorg the “Juraguá” nuclear power plant whose construction was paralyzed. The inspectors verified the state of the closure and the professionalism and transparency of the country’s authorities @OCitma @citmacuba @ElbaRosaPM @SANTANACITMA pic.twitter.com/b3QfMYwwFU
– Jorge Alvarez Alvarez (@JorgeAlvarezAl5) June 19, 2022
In the same way, the especialist reiterated that the Integrated Directorate of MINDUS Projects plans the reconversion and qualification of the place as a national confinement of hazardous waste.
The IAEA representatives were accompanied by specialists from the Ministries of Industry (MINDUS) and Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA), according to the report.
Cuba and the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) signed an agreement in 1976 to build two VVER-440 V318 nuclear reactors in the province of Cienfuegos, near the town of Juraguá, in the municipality of Abreus, according to a published report. yesterday on the official site Cubadebate.
In this way, the first reactor of what would become the Juraguá Electronuclear Power Plant began to be built in 1983. The second was built in 1985. After the collapse of the USSR, Fidel Castro ordered the stoppage of construction work on the facility.
According to this source, Cuba presented the fulfillment of its commitments during the 65th ordinary meeting of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, based in Vienna, Austria.
ORSA, attached to CITMA, is the national regulatory authority responsible for implementing control mechanisms that facilitate compliance with the international commitments assumed by the Cuban State in terms of nuclear safeguards.
