Brazil's dusts mothballs off nuclear programFrom correspondents in Sao Paulo

[Judi Lynn]

Source: AFP

Brazil's dusts mothballs off nuclear programFrom correspondents in Sao Paulo
July 12, 2007 07:00am

BRAZILIAN President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday relaunched the country's nuclear program, promising to complete a nuclear submarine and a third atomic power plant, both of which were mothballed 20 years ago.

"Brazil could rank among those few nations in the world with a command of uranium enrichment technology, and I think we will be more highly valued as a nation - as the power we wish to be," Mr Lula said at the navy's Technological Center in Sao Paulo.

Finishing the nuclear submarine would cost an estimated $US68 million ($80 million) over eight years, he said.

"With a little more (money), we may build it sooner."


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