NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02991361
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2020
• Case Number: F-2017-01987
• Publication Date: March 25, 1978

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The
National Intelligence
Daily
Published by the Director of Central Intelligence for Named Principals Only
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SATURDAY 25 MARCH 1978
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 070
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Brazil
Reprocessing Proposal
A nationalist group within the
Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission
is advocating that Brazil develop its
own fuel-reprocessing capability, free
of international safeguards. We have no
evidence that the group has influenced
anyone outside the Commission, or that
the Commission itself is advocating
such a capability (b)(3)
The group hopes that Brazilian
technicians will acquire the necessary
technology through the recent nuclear
agreement with West Germany and will
eventually be able to build a Brazilian
plant not subject to international
safeguards.
The use of West German technology to
build unsafeguarded facilities would be in
violation of the accord with the Inter-
national Atomic Energy Agency that ac-
companied the bilateral nuclear accord.
The Nuclear Energy Commission
formerly controlled all aspects of Brazil's
nuclear energy development, but its duties
were passed to Nuclebras, the state-
owned nuclear energy enterprise, after the
signing of the agreement with West Ger-
many. Since that time, the Commission
has performed an advisory function for
Brazilian policymakers but is not involved
with the West German nuclear accord.
The Commission recently regained con-
trol of two Brazilian nuclear research in-
stitutes that had been under the control of
Nuclebras and were intended for use in
conjunction with the West German agree-
ment. It is now the only institution in
Brazil capable of directing independent
nuclear development.
Brazil's perception of Argentina's
development of non-safeguarded
fuel-reprocessing facilities and of US op-
position to Brazil's own nuclear
development�especially fuel
reprocessing�would very likely be used
to rally other Brazilians to this groun'q
position. (b)(3)
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