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Brazil has the right to guard its nuclear secrets: top scientist
In the next few months Brazil anticipates signing contracts with Russia that will give them the capability of bringing to orbit large payloads or to launch ICBMs
A little-discussed Brazilian uranium enrichment program illustrates some critical flaws in the Bush administration's campaign to prevent the proliferation of what it calls the world's most dangerous weapons.
It is very clear, Brazil, our neighbor to the South, is going for ICBMs with nuclear warheads. This apparently is being kept quiet probably at least until after our presidential election. -Am
Brazil has the right to guard its nuclear secrets: top scientist
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s uranium enrichment process is not secret, but Brazil has “technical solutions” that it has the right to keep confidential, one of the country’s top nuclear scientist told AFP on Tuesday.
“There are no conceptual secrets,” said scientist Luis Pinguelli Rosa, currently president of Brazil’s national electricity concern, Electrobras.
“But there are advanced technological solutions that Brazil has the right to guard,” he said. Those “technological solutions” include equipment set up and materials used, he added.
Pinguelli insisted that Brazil’s programme was peaceful, and that Brazil uses an ultra centrifugation process used in Europe, while the United States and Russia use the different gas diffusion process.
“There is in no way a need for a further ‘intrusion’ (of the inspectors) to check the uranium enrichment,” Pinguelli said. It comes down to a “matter of principles” for Brazil to stand up to the “imperial position” of the United States, he added.
Brazil is a member of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, as well as the Tlateloco treaty, which bans nuclear weapons in Latin America. Also, the Brazilian Constitution clearly prohibited atomic weapons, he said. —AFP
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_8-4-2004_pg4_5
In the next few months Brazil anticipates signing contracts with Russia that will give them the capability of bringing to orbit large payloads or to launch ICBMs
A little-discussed Brazilian uranium enrichment program illustrates some critical flaws in the Bush administration's campaign to prevent the proliferation of what it calls the world's most dangerous weapons.
It is very clear, Brazil, our neighbor to the South, is going for ICBMs with nuclear warheads. This apparently is being kept quiet probably at least until after our presidential election. -Am
Brazil has the right to guard its nuclear secrets: top scientist
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s uranium enrichment process is not secret, but Brazil has “technical solutions” that it has the right to keep confidential, one of the country’s top nuclear scientist told AFP on Tuesday.
“There are no conceptual secrets,” said scientist Luis Pinguelli Rosa, currently president of Brazil’s national electricity concern, Electrobras.
“But there are advanced technological solutions that Brazil has the right to guard,” he said. Those “technological solutions” include equipment set up and materials used, he added.
Pinguelli insisted that Brazil’s programme was peaceful, and that Brazil uses an ultra centrifugation process used in Europe, while the United States and Russia use the different gas diffusion process.
“There is in no way a need for a further ‘intrusion’ (of the inspectors) to check the uranium enrichment,” Pinguelli said. It comes down to a “matter of principles” for Brazil to stand up to the “imperial position” of the United States, he added.
Brazil is a member of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, as well as the Tlateloco treaty, which bans nuclear weapons in Latin America. Also, the Brazilian Constitution clearly prohibited atomic weapons, he said. —AFP
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_8-4-2004_pg4_5
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