Brazil Can Enrich Uranium for 6 Nukes (Every year)-Researchers

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041022/wl_nm/nuclear_brazil_dc_1

BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's new Resende nuclear plant has the potential to produce enough enriched uranium for six nuclear bombs every year, U.S. researchers said on Friday -- a claim Brazil denied.


The commentary by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, published in Friday's issue of the journal Science, came three days after United Nations (news - web sites) experts visited the plant to resolve a dispute over nonproliferation inspections.


"At its announced capacity, Brazil's new facility located at Resende will have the potential to produce enough uranium to make five to six ... warheads per year," the article by Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project, and research associate Liz Palmer, said.


Brazil and U.N. inspectors have disagreed over access levels needed for proper inspection in the almost year-old dispute.

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[NC_Nurse]

are we invading them next?

right after Iran, I guess..sigh.

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2. They said a few weeks ago that they're pulling out ...

... of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty because they had joined with the understanding that EVERYONE was going to get rid of nukes ...

[NC_Nurse]

1. are we invading them next?

right after Iran, I guess..sigh.