Focus News Agency/AFP, 09/15/2011
Brazil is planning to expand its nuclear energy output by building five more reactors to augment the two currently in operation, Energy Minister Edison Lobao said Thursday, AFP reports.
“Despite the recent incidents in Japan, Brazil is sticking to its policy of expanding its nuclear program,” Lobao said in Rio, according to a report carried by Brazil’s state news agency.
Lobao did not provide any timeline for the construction of the new reactors.
