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Brazil To Produce
Enriched Uranium On
Industrial Scale
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Brazil To Produce
Enriched Uranium On
Industrial Scale
Brasilia - Brazil will
produce enriched uranium
from next month in a
factory in the State of
Rio de Janeiro, the
Brazilian Nuclear
Industries (INB) said
Tuesday.
Brazil will use
technology developed by
the Brazilian Marine
Technology Center in Sao
Paulo (CTMSP) and the
Institute of Energy and
Nuclear Research (IPEN)
to produce enriched
uranium, according to
Samuel Fayad, a
high-ranking official at
INB.
It will become the ninth
country in the world to
master the enrichment
process of the mineral.
"The big breakthrough is
that in future, we do
not depend on external
services for an
important technology,"
he told Agencia Brasil,
Brazil's state news
agency.
INB expects to produce
all of the enriched
uranium used in Angra 1
and 20 percent in Angra
2 by 2012, the two
reactors at Brazil's
sole nuclear power
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