Cuban Scientist Shares Knowledge in Mexico Prensa Latina
go to original April 28, 2012

Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart (Prensa Latina)

MEXICO CITY - Cuban scientist Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart is in Mexico today to share knowledge on the handling and use of the nuclear energy, media informed.

According to the webpage from El Universal newspaper, Castro Diaz-Balart arrived in Mexico to promote the English edition of his book: "Nuclear Energy. Environmental Threat or Solution for the 21st Century?

Nuclear physicist arrived in Veracruz to discuss the need to promote the use of nuclear energy, a clean energy that will help generate a sustainable, healthy and socially fair future.

In reports from local media, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) invited Castro Diaz-Balart to Veracruz to make a tour in Laguna Verde, the only nuclear power plant with electrical generation purposes that exists in Mexico.

The power plant has two independent reactors of uranium; the first of them started working in 1990 and the second in 1995. Its generation represents the three percent of the capacity installed in Mexico, CFE data refers.

In its book, the scientist talks about the diversification of nuclear energy and the need to reduce man's dependence on oil and electricity.

With more than 300 pages, the text is divided into seven chapters in which the author describes the increase in the security level, as well as the uses of the nuclear energy in several fields like medicine or the industry, the newspaper reported.

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