[Mike Darancette]

Good move for Brazil.

[RandallFlagg]

Must be nice. Wish WE could do the same.

[SevenofNine]

Niceee Hal

Rack the Brazil

[burzum]

President Lula da Silva officials told newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo that the government considers the new nuclear plants essential to expanding Brazil's role as a player on the world stage and bolstering its bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.

Does this make sense? How does making electricity from nuclear reactors somehow mean the country is ready to fulfill the mission of the UN Security Council by agreeing to "investigate any situation threatening international peace, recommend procedures for peaceful resolution of a dispute, call upon other member nations to completely or partially interrupt economic relations as well as sea, air, postal, and radio communications, or to sever diplomatic relations, and enforce its decisions militarily, if necessary."

[Finalapproach29er]

Lulu wants nuke weapons.

The good news just keeps on comin'.

[montomike]

WHOOPS

[Robert_Paulson2]

daSilva the communist, needs those nukes built so he can help china launch on us from two theatres, perhaps three counting cuba....

WWNUKEM is on the way.

[Caipirabob]

Waiting for the new horror flick: "Radioactive Sambistas from Brasil!"

[JOE43270]

When are we going to get the IDEA in America. We need new power plants, new oil refineries, new water and wastewater plants. Get the Environmental Protection Agency out of control. It is the BIGGEST COMMUNIST organization in this country. No one in it is elected by us!

[sefarkas]

In 1975 Brazil signed an agreement with the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) under which that country would supply eight nuclear power reactors and transfer technology for the complete nuclear fuel cycle. ... In 1985 the agreement with West Germany was revised, and the construction of five reactors was postponed indefinitely, in part for financial reasons. ... Despite the delays, the technology transfer clauses of the agreement have been maintained, and Brazil has continued to receive West German nuclear technology.

Angra I (operational since 1983) is a Westinghouse PWR much like the Ginna plant near Rochester, NY. KWU N had built Brazil's second nuclear plant, Angra II, that went online in 2000. Framatome ANP, a unit of the French state-run nuclear-engineering company Areva SA (4524.FR), is likely to complete the construction of Angra III, the energy secretary of Rio de Janeiro state, Wagner Victer, told Dow Jones on Nov. 23, 2004. Areva SA is the product of a three-way merger of Framatome with Cogema and CEA-Industrie three years ago. Shortly before that, Germany's Siemens AG (SI) had merged its nuclear power generation division KWU N with Framatome, but kept only a 34% stake in the new company that then became Framatome ANP.

see iWon

as well as floridaBrazil.com