“The National Security Agency [of the U.S. Department of Defense] could get information from the Bolivian plant if there were suspicions that Russia were hiding a nuclear accident or a military project,” he added.
On March 2023, Lithuanian intelligence released their national threat assessment report in which it states that Rosatom covered up incidents, Lithuania’s public broadcaster LRT reported. “Rosatom tries to retain position in the nuclear energy market; however, according to intelligence, the technologies it provides are defective,” Lithuania’s State Security Department said, according to LRT.
Bolivian model
The CIDTN will join other nuclear plants already in Latin American soil. Some countries with nuclear plants are: Argentina with the Atucha I, Atucha II, and Embalse plants. Brazil has three nuclear reactors, Angra I, Angra II, and Angra III, which is under construction. While Mexico joins the list with Laguna Verde I and II.
According to Serrano, Russia could seek to replicate the Bolivian model in the Latin American region, “mainly in Nicaragua and Venezuela, two other dictatorships,” he said before adding, “the other countries would not dare to do it with Russia.”
Lithuania’s intelligence report warns that Rosatom “has been implementing nuclear projects abroad by building and servicing nuclear power plants and suppling uranium products […], [which] not only contribute to Russia’s national budget and finance the growth of the country’s military capabilities, but also helps Russia’s political influence abroad,” LRT reported.
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