Developments in Brazil Energy Sector
By Emile Phaneuf, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Iberdrola, Spain’s largest energy company and worldwide leader in wind production, has announced that it will acquire 99.68 percent of...
View ArticleRecord Brazil Nuclear Energy in 2011: Daily
By Sarah de Sainte Croix, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – During 2011 Brazil’s two nuclear power plants generated 15,644,251 megawatt hours (MWh) setting new national records,...
View ArticleBrazil’s Lava Jato Turning to Energy Companies in 16th Phase
By Lisa Flueckiger, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The sixteenth phase of the Lava Jato (Car wash) investigation has started this morning with a focus on electricity companies,...
View ArticleEletronuclear President Sentenced to 43 Years for Corruption in Brazil
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The former president of the state-owned energy company Eletronuclear Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva was sentenced to 43 years in...
View ArticleBrazil’s Former President Temer Spends First Night in Jail
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Former President of Brazil, Michel Temer, spent his first night in a windowless room at the federal police headquarters in Rio de...
View ArticleBrazil’s Former President Michel Temer is Released From Jail
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Former Brazilian President, Michel Temer was granted a habeas corpus on Monday and spent his first night at home since his arrest...
View ArticleOpinion: Brazil´s Angra 3 nuclear power plant – a web of bribes awakens from...
By Carolina Basso RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – (Opinion) In 2019 the Brazilian government decided to resume work at Angra 3, a nuclear reactor where construction has been essentially dormant for more than...
View ArticleIn-depth: The return of Angra 3 – and the future of Brazil’s nuclear program
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The plant began to be built 37 years ago. Now the work is to be resumed and may finally be ready. If this happens, Brazil will double its capacity for generating nuclear...
View ArticleBrazil’s BNDES contracts consortium for project to complete Angra 3 nuclear...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) has signed a contract with the Angra Eurobras NES consortium for structuring the project to restart and...
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