“We started developing specific solutions that will be used in the construction of a nuclear research and technology center in Bolivia. Our Bolivian partners will soon begin to prepare the site. We plan to start construction operation in the second quarter of 2018. The commissioning of the facility is scheduled for 2019.” The contract to construct a nuclear research center in Bolivia was signed in Vienna on 19 September between the Bolivian Atomic Energy Agency and the State Institute of Engineering Design (a Rosatom Group company). The center will have a pressurized water reactor with the rated capacity of 200 kW, a multi-purpose gamma irradiation unit, a cyclotron for nuclear pharmacy purposes, an engineering department, and several research laboratories. With over 300 million US dollars to be invested, its design life is 50 years, but it can be extended when this limit is approached.