Programmes and agreements / prg-py-us-ncmou-smr-microreactor-plans

Paraguay SMR and microreactor plans under the US-Paraguay strategic civil nuclear memorandum (August 2026)

On 4 August 2026 Paraguay and the United States signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding on Strategic Civil Nuclear Cooperation. Paraguay's nuclear regulator head told ABC Color that microreactors could be operating around 2030 and SMRs in about ten years, but described the memorandum as a political step toward a binding Section 123 agreement, no project, site or vendor exists.

Not a deployment project. SMR plans, agreements, studies and government programmes that are not (yet) a single deployment project. They are listed separately and are never counted as projects or reactors.

Type

Intergovernmental agreement

Countries concerned

Paraguay

Participants and roles

• Government: Government of Paraguay (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
• Government: Autoridad Reguladora Radiológica y Nuclear (ARRN)
• Government: United States (Department of State)

Designs named

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Scale as stated

Microreactors up to 30 MW (projected ~2030) and SMRs up to 300 MW (~10 years), as described by the regulator, no units…

Announced or first reported

4 Aug 2026

Status

Active
Non-binding memorandum, a binding Section 123 agreement still to be negotiated, no project

Confidence

low

Last checked

2026-10-14 (record review date, not proof of current activity)

Related deployment projects

• No related deployment project is recorded here.

Sources

• De la mano de EE.UU., se espera tener reactores nucleares dentro de 5 años (reputable_press, published 9 Aug 2026, accessed 2026-10-14)