Brazil To Build 4 New
Nuclear Power Plants
The president of
Brazil's state-owned
Electronuclear
enterprise said on
Monday that four more
nuclear power plants
will be built in Brazil.
At a seminar on nuclear
power held in Rio de
Janeiro, Othon Pinheiro
da Silva said two of the
new plants will be
constructed in the
northeast of the
country, one in the
southeast while the
fourth's location has
yet to be decided.
The details of the
projects would be
discussed next year, he
added.
The four new plants are
designed to have a
minimum combined
generating capacity of
6,000 megawatts,
accounting for about 70
percent of the nation's
nuclear power, and is
thus fundamental to
guaranteeing the supply
of electricity in Brazil
in the next two decades,
Silva said.
Currently, the joint
generating capacity of
Brazil's two operating
power plants, Angra I
and Angra II, is 2,000
megawatts. Angra III,
which will be
constructed in the next
half of this year, is
expected to have a
capacity of 1,350
megawatts.
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