RT published this video item, entitled “Rosatom resumes construction of nuclear reactor in Bolivia” – below is their description.
Russia’s atomic agency Rosatom has resumed construction at Bolivia’s Nuclear Research Center, with some operations set to begin at the end of this year.
The research center is being built in the city of El Alto, 4,000 meters above sea level, and will be the highest in the world to host nuclear facilities.
Rosatom’s first deputy director general, Kirill Komarov, said: ‘A lot has already been done. This year, the Cyclotron Radiopharmacy Preclinical Complex and the Multipurpose Irradiation Center will go into operation.’
He said the center will help ‘drastically improve cancer diagnostics and treatment’ in Bolivia, and can also be used to sterilize medical equipment during the pandemic.
The facility will house nuclear research equipment based on a water-cooled reactor with the capacity of 200 kilowatts, a multipurpose radiation center featuring industrial gamma-ray equipment, and state-of-the-art research laboratories.
The facility’s construction comes after Russia and Bolivia signed a cooperation agreement on the use of atomic energy in 2016, with it set to be completed by the end of 2024.
Bolivia is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The constitutional capital is Sucre, while the seat of government and executive capital is La Paz.
Its geography varies from the peaks of the Andes in the West, to the Eastern Lowlands, situated within the Amazon Basin.
The country’s population, estimated at 11 million, is multiethnic, including Amerindians, Mestizos, Europeans, Asians and Africans. Spanish is the official and predominant language, although 36 indigenous languages also have official status, of which the most commonly spoken are Guarani, Aymara and Quechua languages.
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the south.
Russia spans more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area, stretching eleven time zones, and bordering 16 sovereign nations. Moscow is the country’s capital.
The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 and since 1993 Russia been governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. Russia is a major great power, with the world’s second-most powerful military, and the fourth-highest military expenditure. As a recognised nuclear-weapon state, the country possesses the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.
