The Government of Javier Milei announced profound reforms to reorder the operation of the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) and orient it towards a more efficient and less expensive model for Argentines.
The initiative was announced by the Secretary of Nuclear Affairs, Federico Ramos Napoli, who pointed against the historic functioning of the organization and anticipated major changes.
Through a message released on the social network X, the official made a critical diagnosis of the current situation of the CNEA, due to years of mismanagement and mismanagement.
“Today, we see clearly the consequences of decades of poor decisions and loss of direction. For years, the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) —and the nuclear sector in general—was used as a political buffer. The result? An endowment that doubled without the incorporation of a single line of income generation beyond the National Treasury,” he said.
Neither more results nor more productivity
Along these lines, the Government explained that the growth of the organism was not accompanied by concrete results or by an improvement in its
productivity.According to Ramos Napoli, “projects to 'provide work' and 'develop capacities' proliferated that required multi-million dollar investments without any clear end date or tangible benefit.” In addition, he stressed that a structure was generated that increased costs without offering
effective solutions.The official also focused on the administrative burden within the agency. “Increasing fixed costs financed exclusively by the taxpayer accumulated, without the promise of anything concrete returning to society,” he
