Ferreira Guedes Construction Company Receives Approval from Eletronuclear to Resume Construction of Angra 3 Nuclear Power Plant, Which Started in 1984 and Has Been Stopped Since 2015

Angra 3 Nuclear Power Plant Will Resume Its Construction After Approval from Eletrobras and Its Subsidiary Eletronuclear. More Than R$ 300 Million Will Be Invested and Thousands of New Job Opportunities Will Be Generated

After the winning consortium was approved for the bidding to carry out the works of the “Acceleration Program for the Critical Path of Angra 3,” during a meeting of Eletrobras’ Board of Directors, the construction, which began in the 1980s and was halted in 2015, will continue. Eletrobras approved the consortium, led by the contractor Ferreira Guedes, and with that, Eletronuclear has 10 days to sign the contract that will allow the start of the works that will generate thousands of jobs at the Angra 3 Nuclear Power Plant.

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MME Celebrates the Resumption of Construction at Angra 3 Plant

For the first phase, the expectation is that the building where the reactor and the safety buildings of the Angra 3 nuclear plant will be constructed. Bento Albuquerque, Minister of Mines and Energy, celebrated the approval granted by Eletrobras and Eletronuclear for the works, which promise to generate numerous jobs.

With nuclear plants Angra 1 and 2, currently, the source accounts for 1.1% of the country’s capacity. According to Albuquerque, Angra 3 nuclear plant is a recovery of the current government, after being inactive for more than six years.

The Angra 3 Nuclear Power Plant will provide the country with greater energy security, being essential for the SIN. The goal, according to Albuquerque, is to complete the works, which will create various jobs, by the end of 2025, so that Eletronuclear, a subsidiary of Eletrobras, can operate by the following year. In total, the works will receive an investment of R$ 300 million, but to complete the project, a new bidding process by Eletronuclear will be necessary, given that the first one will not be sufficient to finish the structure of Angra 3.

Nuclear Plant Will Have 1,450 MW of Power

Angra 3 plant will have the same capacity as Angra 2, that is, 1,450 MW. Currently, the energy from the national nuclear park can supply 30% of Rio de Janeiro’s needs. This number could rise to 50% with the expansion of the park.

The PDE 2030 tender, previously presented, aims for the construction of another plant in the country, in the Southeast region. Last Friday, the president of Abdan, Celso Cunha, attended a meeting with Albuquerque, where they discussed the agreement for defining new nuclear plants with MME and Eletrobras’ Center for Electric Energy Research (Copel).

Government Invests in Nuclear Energy Source and Generates Jobs

In addition to the resumption of works at Angra 3, which will create various jobs and the estimates for the construction of a new unit, the Federal Government is also focusing on the fuel for energy generation from this source.

In 2020, uranium production was resumed in Caetité, in southern Bahia. Until then, there were five years without extracting the element, of which the country has the ninth-largest reserve in the world. It is worth noting that, to function as fuel, uranium extracted from nature must have its proportion increased.