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BRAZIL: FRENCH TO SUPPLY URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE (UF6) PLANT
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06820820
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F-2017-01987
Publication Date:
May 14, 1979
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National
Foreign
L! Assessment
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Scientific Intelligence
Weekly Review
14 \lay 1979
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CONTENTS
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NUCLEAR ENERGY
Brazil: French to Supply Uranium Hexafluoride
(UF6) Plant
This UF6 conversion plant is the last
element that Brazil will need to obtaj.n
a complete nuclear atel cycle.
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Brazil:
Plant
French to Supply Uranium Hexafluoride (UF6)
The 3ra.7.ilian Government and a French firm
signing an aircement of supply for the plant
s;lould be .--.!oleted by 1983 This plant,
wilL be the Last of the facilities needed
make ap a complete nuclear fuel cycle.
The French firm
has been chosen by Nuclebras to provide the tech-
nology and basic engineering for a 500-metric-ton-per-
year UF6 conversion plant. .The plant, which is hoped to
be operational by 1983, is the final part of the complete
nuclear fuel cycle that Brazil envisioned obtaining, the
balance of which will be supplied by West Germany.
are near
which
near Resende,
bq Bru;:il to
Uranium ore concentrate (yellowcake) is processed
in a UF6 conversion plant to produce uranium in a form
suitable for a uranium enrichment operation. In Brazil's
case, the UF6 would be introduced into a Becker jet-
nozzle enrichment plant to produce reactor-grade uranium.
The UF6 plant, along with asmall commercial enrichment
plant and a fuel fabrication plant, will form one large
fuel-cycle complex near the town of Resende in Brazil.
SI WR 79-020
14 May 79
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