BRAZIL: Exercising Nuclear Diplomacy

"Brazil's on-going nuclear program lends proof that the use of diplomacy to assure a country's peaceful intentions, remain an essential thread to the survival of humanity."

"Einstein told us that one day agreements
would become essential...The time is now."-M.B.
newspress

"If you can enrich to 5 percent, you're decades away from enriching to 90 percent," Odair Dias Goncalves, president
of the Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission, explains. "You need a whole new technology that we don't have."

"To further elaborate"....
Brazil says its plant will be capable of enriching natural uranium to less than 5 percent uranium-235, (an isotope needed to fuel its two reactors)...
Warheads need ore that has been enriched to 95 percent uranium-235, a material..Brazil says it can't and won't produce.~~~~~~Many crucial differences exist between Brazil's current nuclear production, & Iran's defiant stance:

Brazil doesn't cheat on the Nonproliferation Treaty and does not exist in an area of high tension. In fact, it is safe to say that Brazil has NEVER been in a war (unless, you count 1870.) Brazil essentially has NO geopolitical enemies! (Wish I could say that of the United States.)

Brazil hasn't threatened to remove any country, and its peaceful constitution bans the military use of nuclear energy.
~~~~~~~~Current Nuclear FactsBrazil has the world's sixth-largest uranium reserves, but until the plant becomes operational, it can't use the fuel for energy without shipping it to and from URENCO, the European enrichment consortium. The government-run Industrias Nucleares do Brasil S.A. has been conducting final tests at the enrichment plant, built on a former coffee plantation in Resende, 90 miles west of Rio de Janeiro. When it opens this year, Brazil will join the world's nuclear elite.
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