Cuba, Argentina Sign Nuclear Energy Pact

Argentina and Cuba have signed an agreement calling for collaboration in the peaceful use of atomic energy, the first pact of its kind in Latin America, the official youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde reported Sunday.

Cuba’s first nuclear energy plant is now under construction on the Bay of Cienfuegos in south-central Cuba. Two of its four reactors are scheduled to go on line in 1990.

The agreement calls for exchanges between Cuban and Argentine experts on operations and safety at nuclear power stations, on nuclear security and radiological protection as well as on the use of radioactivity in the conservation of foods, Juventud Rebelde said.