The Argentine 20 MV tandem accelerator project

Abstract

In 1976, the National Atomic Energy Comission (CNEA) of Argentina approved a proposal presented by its Department of Physics to build a major new facility for nuclear physics, the heart of which is a 20 MV electrostatic tándem accelerator. The project, known as the TANDAR project [1], later enlarged to accommodate also all the basic research activities of CNEA grouped under its Research Branch: the Department of Physics with its nuclear, solid-state and theoretical physics divisions; the Department of Reactor Chemistry with activities in the basic research of reactor technology; the Department of Radiobiology and the Department of Special Projects engaged primarily in the study of non-conventional forms of energy such as solar energy and nuclear fusión.