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Cordoba Conversion Facility

General Information
Country	Argentina
Facility Location (Site)	Cordoba Mill Complex
Province	Cordoba
Data Source	IAEA Technical Meeting on NFCIS, 2008
IAEA Ref. No.	72 - CONV
Last Update	2008-11-12
Last Source Date	2008-11-12

Activity
Facility Type	Conversion to UO2
Design Capacity	175 t HM/year
Status	In operation
Scale	Commercial
Start of Operation	1982
Permanent end of Operation
Remarks	In 2007, CNEA reached agreement with the Salta provincial government in the north of the country to reopen the Don Otto uranium mine.

Process
Process	YC / UO2
Feed Material	YC
Product Material	UO2

Company Information
Ownership	100 %, Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica (CNEA)
Operator	Dioxitek (A CNEA subsidiary)
Website

Ref. No.	Source	Year
1316	IAEA Technical Meeting on NFCIS	2008
1278	NAC Int. Fuel Trac, 2003	2003
1062	World Nuclear Industry Handbook 1999, Nucl. Eng. Int., 1999.	1999
837	World Nuclear Industry Handbook 1998, Nucl. Eng. Int., 1998.	1998
834	"Conversion services: the fuel market's stepchild", Nucl. Eng. Int., (September 1998) pp. 14-15.	1998
464	"World nuclear industry handbook", Nucl. Eng. Int., 1997	1997
462	"Data file: Argentina.", Nucl. Eng. Int., Vol. 42 No. 517 - August 1997 (14-18).	1997
418	INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, 1994 Questionnaire on Nucl. Fuel Cycle Facilities in Member States.	1994
412	1991 Annual Review, NUEXCO, 1992.	1992
131	VERCELLONE J.A., "Devolopment of a technology to make UO2 starting from yellowcake refined with amines in a sulphuric environment", IAEA-TECDOC-420, IAEA, Vienna (1987), pp. 49-61.	1987
123	Alfonsin reaffirms nuclear pledge, Nucl. Eng. Int. 31 381 (1986) 10.	1986
139	"Argentina produces 203 MT of U3O8 in 1983", Uranium, 1984 - Supply, Processing, Prices, Enrichment, Series 11, Special Report, McGraw-Hill, New York (1984) 42.	1984
333	BENEDICT, M., LEVI, H.W., PIGFORD T.H., Nuclear Chemical Engineering, 2nd edn, McGraw-Hill, New York (1981) 320.	1981