Energy

Key Facts

—The proposal. Meitner Energy has proposed Argentina’s first privately funded nuclear reactor, a 1.2-billion-dollar project at the Atucha complex.

—The design. It is a small modular reactor of about 300 megawatts, billed as the first of its kind built anywhere.

—The backers. The firm pairs United States capital from the Ansari Group with a forty per cent stake tied to Argentina’s state technology company INVAP.