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Gazeta Mercantil - ENERGY: Brazil plans to build 60 nuclear power plants

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:38:26 -0000

The Brazilian Mines and Energy minister, Edison Lobão, said today in Angra dos Reis (state of Rio de Janeiro) that Brazil has already decided to give priority to the resumption of the country's nuclear program. Some 60 nuclear power plants should be built in the next 50 years. Each unit should have generation capacity for 1,000 megawatts.

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Brazil - Brazzil Mag - Brazil and Argentina Ready to Create Binational Nuclear Agency

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:19:34 -0000

Brazil and Argentina are intent on addressing the creation of a binational nuclear energy agency when presidents Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, from Argentina and Brazil respectively, meet next month in Recife, the capital of the Brazilian northeastern state of Pernambuco.

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Brazil to build another 4 nuclear power plants - Xinhua

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:53:04 -0000

Brazil is to build a further four nuclear power plants in addition to finishing the halted Angra III plant, local media said Tuesday.

Two plants will be built in the northeast and the other two will be built in the southeast, where three Angra plants are already located, local media said, adding that the four plants are expected to begin operating by 2014.

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Scoop: Brazil’s Nuclear Ambitions: Worrisome?

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:12:19 -0000

Brazilian authorities gave the final go ahead to the civilian nuclear power company, Electronuclear, to continue construction of the country’s third nuclear power plant. Though the decision to revitalize the 22-year-old nuclear reactor, Angra 3, came late last year, plans were finalized in July by the government’s environmental regulatory agency. Electronuclear, a subsidiary of the state-owned energy firm Electrobras, plans to begin construction in February.

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Brazil revives nuclear power plant - CNN.com

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:20:00 -0000

The Brazilian government has authorized the company, Electronuclear, to go back to work on the nation's third nuclear power plant.

Work on the Angra 3 reactor, near Rio de Janeiro, has been stalled for 22 years by a lack of money and political issues.

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Areva to maintain Brazilian nuclear plants - UPI.com

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:47:46 -0000

French nuclear engineering group Areva has been awarded six contracts in Brazil.

The nuclear major received nearly $90 million from Brazilian utility Eletronuclear to carry out extensive service on the Angra-1 and Angra-2 nuclear power plants in Angra dos Reis in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.

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Fri, 09 May 2008 09:05:25 -0000

Rio de Janeiro, May 8 (IANS) Brazil plans to move ahead over the next few years with an ambitious nuclear programme that includes power plants and a nuclear submarine, EFE news agency reported Thursday quoting a minister.

Speaking to foreign reporters Wednesday, science and technology minister Sergio Rezende said that the government had been discussing the entire programme and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva "is close to signing an executive order to create a committee to look after the programme."

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AFP: Greenpeace activists protest new nuclear plant for Rio

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:40:19 -0000

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