Posted on 03/16/2022 5:47:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Walker is dead and son released after 15 years in prison.
"Long running" is right. Brazil's nuclear submarine program was started in the 1970s, to develop a nuclear fuel cycle program, a suitable submarine design, and the construction of a nuclear reactor to power the submarine. A Brazilian nuclear submarine, Álvaro Alberto, is planned for launch in 2029.
While it might be hard to object to Brazil (which does have nuclear power plants) deciding to build its own nuclear-powered submarine, this means that Brazil's uranium fuel production technology (currently enriching to 3% for NPPs) would have to ramp up to possibly >90% enrichment for producing nuclear submarine fuel. However this expanded capability gets into the region of uranium enrichment needed for nuclear weapons production.
That does make the IAEA and other people concerned, if not nervous.
Brazil earlier under a different leader had a pretty good relationship with Iran as I recall. Hillary pulled off some sort of heavy water deal with Iran via Brazilian intermediaries.
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