Editing Huemul Project (section)

==After the project==
In the period immediately after the military takeover, Balseiro wrote a proposal to create a nuclear physics institute on the mainland in nearby [[Bariloche]] using the equipment on the island.{{sfn|Cardona|Cohen|Louie|2003|p=10}} Originally known as the Instituto de Física de Bariloche, it was renamed the [[Balseiro Institute|Instituto Balseiro]] in his honour in 1962.<ref name=mayo>{{cite web |last=Mayo |first=Santos |title=More on the Value of Ronald Richter's Work |publisher=[[Physics Today]] |date=March 2004 |url=http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_57/iss_3/14_1.shtml  |access-date=2008-05-11}}</ref>

Between 1952 and 1955, Richter was effectively under [[house arrest]] in Buenos Aires, with an offer from Perón to "facilitate any travel he might have to make".{{sfn|Hymans|2012|p=232}} After Perón was deposed in September 1955, the new government arrested Richter on the night of 4 October 1955. He was accused of fraud,{{sfn|Davenport|1983|p=322}} and spent a short time in jail.{{sfn|Arnoux|2011|p=1}} At the time, it was estimated that 62.5 million Pesos had been spent on the project, about $15 million USD (${{inflation|US|15|1952}} million in {{CURRENTYEAR}}).{{sfn|Hagood|2014|p=268}} A more recent estimate places the value closer to [[United States dollar|$]]300 million in 2003 dollars (${{inflation|US|300|2003}} million in {{CURRENTYEAR}}).{{sfn|Cardona|Cohen|Louie|2003|p=9}}

Richter remained in Argentina for a time, but began to travel, eventually landing in [[Libya]]. He returned to Argentina and was extensively interviewed by Mario Mariscotti for his book on Huemul, which remains the most detailed account of the project.{{sfn|Cardona|Cohen|Louie|2003|p=283}} Mariscotti blames the affair primarily on Richter, who Mariscotti states was capable of great self-delusion, adding an autocratic and paranoid management style, and lack of oversight to the ills.{{sfn|Hagood|2014|p=269}}

Perón remains a controversial figure to this day, and opinions of Richter tend to be colored by how closely the author associates him with Perón. Argentine accounts often refer to Richter as an outright [[con man]],<ref>{{cite journal |first=Juan |last=Roederer |title=Early Cosmic-Ray Research in Argentina |url=http://scitation.aip.org/docserver/fulltext/aip/magazine/physicstoday/56/1/1.1554134.pdf?expires=1434464170&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=12E445AD8811658171737996748485AF |journal=Physics Today |date=January 2003 |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=32–37 |doi=10.1063/1.1554134|bibcode=2003PhT....56a..32R |doi-access=free }}</ref> while accounts written outside Argentina generally describe him as a deluded amateur.{{sfn|Cardona|Cohen|Louie|2003|p=26}}<ref>{{cite journal |first=FriedWardt |last=Winterberg |title=Ronald Richter, Genius or Nut? |url=http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/56/8/10.1063/1.4797108 | doi = 10.1063/1.4797108 |journal=Physics Today |date=August 2003 |pages=12–13 |volume=56|issue=8 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>