A mixed economy company connected with the Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear - CNEN (the Brazilian nuclear regulatory authority) and under the Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia (Ministry of Science and Technology), it is present in the states of Bahia, Ceará, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, actively participating, with the Brazilian society, in the development of major technological projects for the generation of nuclear-electric power. It answers for uranium exploration, from mining and primary processing up to production and assembly of the fuel elements that power the reactors in the nuclear plants. Such activities form the Nuclear Fuel Cycle. It also operates in the area of physical treatment of heavy minerals with prospecting and research, mining, industrialization and marketing of monazite sand and acquisition of rare earths.

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