Electric energy is essential to the countries' social and economic development. It means a better quality of life.
Generation of Nuclear Energy
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Brazil
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Source: IAEA PRIS 2001
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Third most used source worldwide, it is based on a mature and proven technology.
The nuclear industry environmental aspects, in their totality, are favorable when compared to the
compared to the existing alternatives for the electric energy production on large scale.
The generation diversification expands the
offer and avoids the dependence on a single source.
The Angra 1 and 2 Nuclear Power Plants are responsible for supplying the equivalent to 40% of the Rio de Janeiro State needs.
Brazil has one of the highest uranium reserves in the world which
supplies of the domestic needs in the long run and the exceeding one is available to the foreign market.
Nuclear fuel aggregates technology and energy potential from uranium, and its production
line is presented in a summarized way, in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle.
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