Brazil announces its intention to complete the Angra-3 nuclear power plant and add 4 reactors more.

[NNadir]

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SAO PAULO, Brazil: Brazil's government intends to build four new nuclear plants and increase oil and petrochemical refining capacity as part of a strategic plan for the energy sector up to 2030, an official said Wednesday.

Brazil still would remain reliant on hydroelectric power plants for an overwhelming majority of its energy, said Mauricio Tolmasquim, president of the government's energy research agency.

By 2030, hydroelectric power is expected to account for 70 percent of electric energy capacity compared with the current level of 75 percent. Tolmasquim said the government will look to promote alternative sources.

Those include four new nuclear plants to be built in the northeast and southeast of the country starting in 2015. Each is projected to have generating capacity of 1,000 megawatts.

The plan also includes the completion of the Angra 3 nuclear power plant in Rio de Janeiro, which has been stuck in the planning stage for a number of years

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/22/business/LA_FIN_Brazil_Energy.php

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Holy Capoeira, Batman! Glow-In-The-Dark SAMBAS!

When Brazil gets nukes ... and the kids drink the mind-bending Hoasca ... Carnevál becomes Carn-EVIL!

Terror On The High Pampas

Coming to a Liberal On-Line Community near you!

--p!

[mitchtv]

2. When Brazil gets nukes

Argentina will too

[Dead_Parrot]

3. They've both had nuclear power for years...

Brazil at Angra since '82, Argentina at Atucha since '74 (plus others since)

[NNadir]

4. Argentina is going to complete Atucha 2.

Argentina is also developing a small indigenous pressurized water reactor called the CAREM. I don't know much about it. It's supposed to be around 300MWe.

[BeFree]

5. Oh, great

Now they'll have enough energy to burn down the rest of the Amazon forests?

Welp, with all that nuke waste soon coming to a dump near you, we won't have to worry what's coming from the sky, it'll be what's coming in under, around and through the door!

[NNadir]

6. What on earth are you talking about?

Never mind, I don't really want to know.

:eyes:

I'm gonna guess there's no reliable treatment.