This Thursday the nuclear cooperation agreement between Mexico and the US enters into force

A bilateral agreement on nuclear energy between the United States and Mexico, which was signed in 2018has entered into force with a view to enhancing cooperation on energy security.

It is the “first bilateral agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation” between the two countries, the US State Department said Wednesday night.

Known as 123 agreements, these pave the way for sensitive issues such as the peaceful transfer of nuclear material, equipment and information from the United States in compliance with non-proliferation requirements.

“This agreement will further strengthen the relationship between the United States and Mexico and deepen our cooperation on energy security,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said.

Mexico and the United States signed the agreement in 2018, but the Mexican Senate did not give its approval until March.

Mexico’s state power company CFE has a nuclear plant that operates two reactors. The country’s Secretary of Energy, Rocío Nahle, has described nuclear energy as “clean, safe, constant and profitable.”

White House climate envoy John Kerry traveled to Mexico last week to talk renewable energy with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, focusing on lithium, batteries and the auto industry.