BRAZIL: NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06827151
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2020
• Case Number: F-2017-01987
• Publication Date: May 18, 1979

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Briefs and Comments
Brazil: Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
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BRAZIL: Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
the Brazilians
have begun technical studies on raising the capacity of
their planned reprocessing plant from 10 kilograms of
spent uranium fuel a day to as much as 500 kilograms.
The facility, to be built by West Germany, will not be
completed until the mid-1980s. The higher capacity is
far in excess of Brazil's reprocessing requirement, and
could permit the separation of about 4 kilograms of plu-
tonium a day. The United Reprocessors group--West Germany,
France, and the UK--does not permit exports of plants
with capacities greater than 10 kilograms a day, but the
purchasing country is free to do its own upgrading. If
the output of the facility is increased above 10 kilo-
grams a day it still would be subject t7 safeanards of
the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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