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  2. National Nuclear Energy Commission - Wikipedia

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    The National Nuclear Energy Commission (Portuguese: Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear; CNEN) is the Brazilian government agency responsible for orientation, planning, supervision, and control of the Brazil's nuclear program. [1] The agency was created on 10 October 1956. [2]

  3. Brazil and weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia

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    Brazil also reportedly bought highly enriched uranium from China in the 1980s. In December 1982, then-president of the National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN), Rex Nazaré, headed a mission to China with the objective of purchasing enriched uranium from his Chinese counterparts at the China National Nuclear Corporation. [14]

  4. Nuclear activities in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazil also reportedly bought highly enriched uranium from China in the 1980s. In December 1982, then-president of CNEN, Rex Nazaré, headed a mission to China with the objective of purchasing enriched uranium from his Chinese counterparts at the China National Nuclear Corporation. [59]

  5. Brazilian–Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of ...

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    The Brazilian–Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC; Portuguese: Agência Brasileiro-Argentina de Contabilidade e Controle de Materiais Nucleares; Spanish: Agencia Brasileño-Argentina de Contabilidad y Control de Materiales Nucleares) is a binational safeguards agency playing an active role in the verification of the peaceful use of nuclear materials that ...

  6. Goiânia accident - Wikipedia

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    The Goiânia accident [ɡojˈjɐniɐ] was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, after an unsecured radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city. It was subsequently handled by many people, resulting in four deaths.

  7. List of federal institutions of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazilian Space Agency, Agência Espacial Brasileira (AEB) National Institute for Space Research, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) National Nuclear Energy Commission, Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear (CNEN) National Institute of Amazonian Research, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)

  8. Resende Nuclear Fuel Factory - Wikipedia

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    The Nuclear Fuel Factory (FCN) is located near Resende, state of Rio de Janeiro, comprising three units, and has a production capacity of 280 tons of uranium per At present, FCN was modernized and produces at the Components and Assembly Unit the fuel rods and fuel elements needed for Brazilian nuclear reactors.

  9. International Reactor Innovative and Secure - Wikipedia

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    The IRIS pressure vessel and systems contained within it. The coolant system consists of a pressurizer, Steam generators, and reactor coolant pumps (RCPs).These are all located within the reactor pressure vessel, making a very small, short loop that forms the primary coolant system, see the figure on the right for the relative locations of the components.