LAS-ANS is the result of a pioneering effort of several professionals and executives of nuclear organizations of the region. The continuity over more than 25 years show that pursuing free and fair cooperation among peoples and countries gave an encouraging result of diffusion of nuclear activities.

During the time when nuclear energy in our region reached low ebb periods LAS-ANS contributed to keep closely linked the nuclear communities of our countries and encouraged professionals and managers to pursue in their efforts to maintain the nuclear option open.

Nowadays, due to the better prospect foreseen for nuclear energy, the role of LAS-ANS will be to strengthen the scope of its activity in the region and to enlarge the participation of other countries to become active partners in this endeavor.

To be a part of LAS is a professional achievement.

Looking at the 21st century, Latin America faces the challenges that the new millennium presents and these challenges can take on only with a change in mentality and with advanced technologies. Therefore the LATIN AMERICAN SECTION OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY is focused to innovate, develop and communicate a quality culture, safety and environmental protection based on the benefits that the use of Nuclear Energy provides to different areas with peaceful purposes, all with Latin American presence and participation.

Promote extensive exchange of experiences in coordination with public and private organizations inside the nuclear community through the following activities:


. Spreading the technological advances.

. Participate in technological research.

. Attending problem resolutions and consulting nuclear engineering related issues.

. Foster mutual cooperation and work closer with in the nuclear community.

. Organize meetings and congresses.

. Continue promotional effort to increase number of collaborators.

. Promote use of nuclear energy.

In my opinion, the main role of the Latin American Section of the American Nuclear Society – LAS is to act as an integrating vehicle, non-governmental, of nuclear activities in the Americas.

Since July 1998, LAS contributed to get together local nuclear societies of Argentina (Asociación Argentina de Tecnologia Nuclear – AATN), Brazil (Associação Brasileira de Energia Nuclear – ABEN), Mexico (Sociedade Nuclear Mexicana – SNM), Canada (Canadian Nuclear Society – CNS) as well as of the U.S. (American Nuclear Society – ANS) through meetings sponsored by LAS (Buenos Aires Nuclear Symposium and Washington Meeting of the Americas).


This integration was reinforced, in Acapulco, in July 1999, during the International Joint Meeting on the Role of Nuclear Power to Mitigate Climate Change, co-sponsored by SNM, LAS, Federación Latino Americana de Sociedades de Protección Radiológica and Sociedad Mexicana de Seguridad Radiológica.