Nuclear Plant “Angra II”
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.
Brazil has some of the largest reserves of uranium in the world but until now the ore has had to be shipped abroad for enrichment – the process which produces nuclear fuel.
In future some of that enrichment will take place in Brazil.
Brazilian scientists insist their technology is superior to that of existing nuclear powers. They claim the type of centrifuge in use at Resende will be 25 times more efficient than facilities in France or the United States.
Keen to protect its commercial secrets, Brazil was reluctant to give inspectors full access to its facilities and politically the negotiations were complicated by simultaneous concerns about Iran’s nuclear plans.
But in the end Brazil and the IAEA agreed a system of safeguards to ensure that the new facilities would not be channelled into weapons production.
Unless, of course, they sell the enriched uranium to the US, UK, China, Russia, France, Israel, etc., etc..
Difference is Brazil doesn’t have a madmad at the helm, Iran does.
Guess it all depends on how much oil they have….
.Well, let’s see now, Brazil has a bunch of brown skin people and even some with black skin and all.
Hmm.
Annnd they got oil as well as ethanol made from sugar cane annnnd a lots more land available to grow even more sugar cane for even more ethanol.
Hmm.
There’s no use for us to buy ethanol from Brazil when we can steal it.
Hmm.
Time to start some crap with Brazil.
Hmmm.
Yeah, they hate us.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Then we can bomb the Hell out of Brazil, then invade and occupy ’em so we can control their elections and ¡ Praise Jay-uh-zus ! bring freedom and democracy to Brazil. You know, like we’re doing in Iraq.
Hunh, and everybody thought we were gonna bomb, invade and occupy Venezuela. That was just to divert attention from our plans to screw Brazil over.
¿ Kin ah git uh ¡ Amen ! from the mouth breathing living brain donor idolaters of Al-Usa ?
Allen McDonald, El Galloviejo®
perhaps if the president of Brazil starts talking about wiping Argentina or Uruguay off the map, they can have a place in the AoE.
I would suggest that they take Iraq’s seat, but its vacancy is probably only temporary ….
Isn’t it funny how left-wingers are always the first to start throwing around racial terms in any debate?
First and foremost I am against nuclear energy. If not for the threat it represents in terms of misuse, but at least for the issue of nuclear waste. It lives for too long and no one can find a real good solution for that problem. Put that aside and considering that the US have nuclear power, France has nuclear power, Spain has nuclear power, etc., etc., it is only fair than any other country could have nuclear power. However, Iran should be considered a special case, as none of the other countries has, for instance, a president who has no problem in saying he wants the extermination of another nation. I am not even considering if it is fair or not to eliminate Israel (though very personally, I trully admire the Isreali people and hope Israel to survive and prosper). What I am considering is the cost that the world will have to bear in case Iran tries to do what its president wants, the elimination of Israel through the use of a nuclear bomb.
There is a huge difference between what happened during the cold war and what we might face here. Russians did indeed love their children too. Here we could have a very different setting and lets just hope it doesn’t happen.
And no, I am not being pro-Bush here as he cornered himself when he went to war against Iraque. Iran is simply taking advantage of that.
We have peace with North Korea. Therefore, peace happens when differing nations have equal nuclear power. I think America should hand over nukes to Iran and Iraq. We would have saved thousands of lives and saved a trillion dollars.If we have another cold war, so be it.
Its control, and PRICE.
WHO is in control, and how much they can GET for the product.
Raw material is like selling Lumber from canada, compared to A chair and table from New zealand.. How much you willing to pay, and keep there supplies LOW…
It’s nuanced, I know, but it’s not the bomb that’s the problem but the people who own it.
The one good thing about this is that Brazil may end up replacing France on the UN Security Council.
Iran has a stated goal of genocide and destruction of another nation; Brazil has no such policy. Iran can credibly be expected to start a nuclear war; Brazil cannot. That’s the difference. Not oil, not money, not skin color.
If you will notice, this is the same thing that got us into Iraq. Saddam was threatening Israel with WMD. The moral is: if you don’t want the US to overthrow your government, don’t threaten to start a nuclear war which will destablize the entire region and destroy the entire world economy.
Two asides:
1. We know now that Saddam didn’t have WMD, but at the time we didn’t know that (He lied, what a surprise). And if you think the only reason we thought he did have them was because Bush lied about it, Clinton, the UN and the Dems thought he had them long before Bush ever entered office.
2. The whole idea of a war for oil has a tremendous flaw: it would have been way cheaper to just buy it than fight for it. The picture becomes much clearer when people take off their conspiracy-colored glasses and use some common sense.
#11 — 2 critical flaws in your own reason #2:
1st — If competition for a scarce commodity like oil is allowed in an open market, traders — like those who back Bush and Cheney — are limited to the market price and concurrent profits. When Bush was elected, oil was $18/barrel. Nuff said?
2nd — the real threat to the US Oil Patch Boys was Saddam’s conversion to a PetroEuro instead of the PetroDollar accepted since the 1930’s. This increased profits significantly for Euro-based companies and cut expenses for Middle Eastern suppliers — and put the screws to the dollar-based companies.
#13 — The math is right about oil availability, Not much else.
There is no shortage of nations threatened by Bush or the Israelis. Oh, and China actually diminished their consumption of oil, last year, just a bit over 2%. Every little bit helps.
You can be anti-war and still trade in oil, dude. Chuckle.