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."
With that much capacity, Lula could export electricity to neighboring countries as a bargaining chip for Brazil to win the permanent seat for South America in the future expanded Security Council.
Brazil of 2005 is not the same Brazil of 1985. Its a vasty different country...and its the virtual leader of South America (as much as Colombia and Argentina thinks otherwise). And if most countries would be honest about energy consumption...there would be more plants built. The energy requirements of the top ten industrial countries have not decreased a single bit over the past 20 years...they increase each year. The middle-class...across the entire globe...is demanding what comes with their position in life...and electrical power is critical.