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BRAZIL: REDUCED NUCLEAR PROGRAM
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06826644
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March 9, 2023
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September 18, 2020
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F-2017-01987
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September 8, 1980
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Approved for Release: 2020/09/11 C06826644
Director of
Central
Intelligence
National Intelligence Daily
Monday
8 September 1980
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CO NID 80-211.IX
TCS 2911180
8 September 1980
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Contents
Brazil: Reduced Nuclear Program
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BRAZIL: Reduced Nuclear Program
Brasilia may cut back its ambitious nuclear power program.,
which depends mainly on planned deliveries from West Germany,
because of rising costs.
Brasilia is considering plans put forth by the coun-
try's leading nuclear physicist to install only the first
three West German reactors by 1995 and to delay work on
the remaining units. Brazil would limit its acquisition
of nuclear fuel production technology to uranium concen-
tration, enrichment, and fuel fabrication. The original
agreement signed in 1975--which the West Germans could
refuse to honor if Brazil cut back its program--stipulated
West German delivery of eight reactors and a complete
production cycle including reprocessing capability, by
1990.
Brazil is finding it virtually impossible to pay for
all that the agreement covers. Power facilities to pro-
duce 10,000 megawatts, as provided in the original pro-
gram, would cost over $30 billion, more than quadruple
the cost calculated in 1975. Development of Brazil's
extensive, though remote, hydropower rpqnnrc-ps iq now
more attractive than nuclear energy.
Opposition to the nuclear program in Brazil's media
and scientific community remains strong. Construction
delays, major cost overruns, inadequate West German
training of Brazilian nuclear technicians, and the slow
pace of technolo transfer have contributed to public
dissatisfaction. -CIA, DIA, NSA-
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