{
  "slug": "carem-25",
  "name": "CAREM-25",
  "company_id": "cnea",
  "coolant": "Light water",
  "reactor_type": "pwr",
  "output_mwe": 29,
  "thermal_mw": null,
  "fuel_type": "Uranium dioxide",
  "enrichment_class": "LEU",
  "enrichment_pct": "Around 3.1% U-235",
  "regulator": "Autoridad Regulatoria Nuclear (Argentina)",
  "application_type": "Construction licence",
  "application_date": null,
  "review_phase": "Licensed and under construction since 2014; work currently suspended",
  "decision_expected": null,
  "credibility_tier": "under_construction",
  "docket": "ARN construction licence, Formosa site at Lima, Buenos Aires province",
  "first_site_name": "CAREM",
  "first_site_country": "ARG",
  "offtakers": null,
  "model_match": "CAREM Prototype (Integrated-PWR)",
  "transportable": 0,
  "form_factor": "Integral PWR with the steam generators inside the pressure vessel and natural circulation",
  "what_if": null,
  "notes": "First concrete in 2014, which makes it one of the earliest SMR construction starts anywhere, and it is still not finished. Work has been suspended more than once, including a two-year halt from November 2019, and is suspended again. Argentina designed an integral PWR with natural circulation and no primary pumps before most of the current SMR industry existed, and the record here is a caution about reading a construction start as progress.\n",
  "source_name": "World Nuclear Association, CAREM-25 reactor record",
  "source_url": "https://world-nuclear.org/nuclear-reactor-database/details/carem25",
  "url": "https://nuclearchain.net/smr/carem-25/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "attribution": "NuclearChain (nuclearchain.net)"
}