RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Brazil has inaugurated a uranium enrichment center capable of producing nuclear fuel for the South American country's power plants.
Brazil's enrichment center will save millions of dollars the country now spends to enrich fuel at Urenco, the European enrichment consortium, Science and Technology Minister Sergio Rezende told the government news agency Agencia Brasil Saturday.
Iran is seeking to produce the same fuel, but is facing international pressure against doing so. Brazil — like Iran — has signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and Brazil's constitution bans the military use of nuclear energy.
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Brazil has joined the select group of countries with the capability of enriching uranium as a means of generating energy.
A new centrifuge facility was formally opened on Friday at the Resende nuclear plant in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
The Brazilian government says its technology is some of the most advanced in the world.
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