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The work on the Angra 3 Nuclear Power Plant will be resumed after approval by Eletrobras and its subsidiary Eletronuclear. More than BRL 300 million will be invested and thousands of new job opportunities will be generated
After the approval of the consortium that won the bid to carry out the works of the “Program for Acceleration of the Critical Path of the Angra 3 Plant”, in a meeting of the Board of Directors of Eletrobras, the works, which began in the 80s and were paralyzed in 2015 , will be continued. Eletrobras granted the approval to the consortium, led by contractor Ferreira Guedes, and, with that, Eletronuclear has 10 days to sign the contract that will allow the start of works that will generate thousands of jobs at the Angra 3 Nuclear Power Plant.
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MME celebrates the resumption of work on the Angra 3 plant
For the first phase, the forecast is that the building where the reactor and the security buildings of the Angra 3 nuclear power plant will be built. Bento Albuquerque, Minister of Mines and Energy, celebrated the endorsement given by Eletrobras and Eletronuclear for the works, which promise to generate several jobs.
With the Angra 1 and 2 nuclear power plants, the source is currently equivalent to 1,1% of the country's capacity. According to Albuquerque, the Angra 3 nuclear power plant is a recovery of the current government, after more than six years inactive.
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The Angra 3 Nuclear Power Plant will offer the country greater energy security, being essential for the SIN. The goal, according to Albuquerque, is to finish the works, which will create several jobs, by the end of 2025, so that the Eletronuclear plant, a subsidiary of Eletrobras, can operate in the following year. In total, the works will receive an investment of R$ 300 million, but to finalize the project a new Eletronuclear bid will be necessary, bearing in mind that the first one will not be enough for the structure of Angra 3 to be concluded.
Nuclear power plant will have 1.450 MW of power
The Angra 3 plant will have the same capacity as Angra 2, that is, 1.450 MW. Currently, the energy from the plants in the national nuclear park has the capacity to supply 30% of Rio de Janeiro's needs. That number could rise to 50% as the park expands.
The public notice PDE 2030, already presented before, aims to build another plant in the country, in the Southeast region. Last Friday, the president of Abdan, Celso Cunha, attended a meeting with Albuquerque, in which they discussed the agreement for the definition of new nuclear power plants with the MME and the Electric Energy Research Center of Eletrobras (Copel).
Government invests in nuclear energy source and creates jobs
In addition to the resumption of work on the Angra 3 plant, which will create several jobs and estimates for the construction of a new unit, the Federal Government is also focusing on fuel to generate energy from this source.
In 2020, uranium production was resumed in Caetité, in southern Bahia. Until then, it had been five years without extracting the element, of which the country has the ninth largest reserve in the world. It is worth remembering that, in order to function as fuel, the uranium extracted from nature must have its proportion increased.
