{"id":96946,"date":"2025-12-17T11:09:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/murray.adv.br\/?p=96946"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:09:05","slug":"brazils-nuclear-reactor-still-on-paper-after-17-years-r5bn-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murray.adv.br\/en\/brazils-nuclear-reactor-still-on-paper-after-17-years-r5bn-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s nuclear reactor still on paper after 17 years, R$5bn planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content--header\">\n<div class=\"row content-head featured \">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h6 class=\"content-head__title\" style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Brazilian Multipurpose Reactor project drags on amid delays and revisions<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content__signa-share\">\n<div class=\"content__signature\">\n<div class=\"content-publication-data\">\n<div class=\"content-publication-data__text\">\n<div class=\"content-publication-data__from\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-publication-data__updated\">12\/17\/2025\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content__share-bar-container\">\n<div class=\"content__share-bar\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row medium-uncollapsed content-top-image\" data-block-type=\"featured-image\" data-block-id=\"0\">\n<div class=\"column medium-centered medium-22 large-20 desktop \" style=\"text-align: center\">\n<figure class=\"content-featured-figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"content-featured-image aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-valorinternational.glbimg.com\/KggDyTy2_QG4EqO7L7IKDuPv7qQ=\/0x0:3840x2160\/888x0\/smart\/filters:strip_icc()\/i.s3.glbimg.com\/v1\/AUTH_63b422c2caee4269b8b34177e8876b93\/internal_photos\/bs\/2025\/x\/g\/UrQwI2QkKtoNo1GCn64A\/foto-2.jpg\" alt=\"Radiopharmaceuticals are used in cancer diagnostics and therapies\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\" \/><figcaption class=\"content-featured-caption\"><em>Radiopharmaceuticals are used in cancer diagnostics and therapies \u2014 Photo: Divulga\u00e7\u00e3o ABDAN<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"mc-article-body\" class=\"mc-article-body \">\n<article>\n<div class=\"no-paywall\">\n<div class=\"mc-column mc-side-item__container\" data-block-type=\"ads\" data-block-id=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles active-capital-letter\" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"55\" data-block-id=\"2\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container theme-color-primary-first-letter\" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Nearly two decades after the government promised a reactor capable of producing radioisotopes\u2014radioactive elements that underpin radiopharmaceuticals used in cancer diagnostics and therapies\u2014Brazil remains far from having the equipment available to society. The\u00a0<strong>Brazilian Multipurpose Reactor (RMB)<\/strong>\u00a0project has dragged on through postponements, revisions, and ceremonial events that have done little to change its pace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wall protected-content\">\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"36\" data-block-id=\"3\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Created to reposition the country in the\u00a0<strong>nuclear research landscape<\/strong>\u00a0and reduce external dependence, the RMB has advanced slowly despite\u00a0<strong>R$5 billion<\/strong>\u00a0earmarked for the project, according to the\u00a0<strong>Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MCTI)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"64\" data-block-id=\"4\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">The reactor is the responsibility of the\u00a0<strong>National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN)<\/strong> and, between 2008 and 2025, went through a succession of altered timelines, internal reviews, restarted phases, supplementary studies, budget interruptions, and debates over infrastructure, management, and governance. According to the agency, more than R$1.2 billion has already been allocated to the project through the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FNDCT).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"86\" data-block-id=\"6\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">In February, the federal government held a new ceremony marking the start of construction of the reactor, to be implemented in Iper\u00f3, in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, an event treated as a\u00a0<strong>milestone\u00a0<\/strong>by the MCTI. The first such ceremony took place in 2018, under former president Michel Temer. Nearly a year after the latest event, sentiment within the nuclear sector remains skeptical. Experts interviewed by\u00a0<strong>Valor\u00a0<\/strong>said the ceremony did not translate into real progress and that the project remains stalled by management failures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"50\" data-block-id=\"7\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">The\u00a0<strong>National Nuclear Safety Authority (ANSN)<\/strong>, the agency responsible for sector regulation, said the licensing process has accumulated pending issues, in addition to an insufficient number of staff assigned to move the process forward. Today, there are more than 200 outstanding documentary requirements, including the Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (RPAS).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"81\" data-block-id=\"8\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">\u201cThis stage of licensing is of key importance, as it is when the regulator analyzes and understands the project\u2019s overall concept, as well as how the applicant intends to address design-basis accidents and the performance of structures, systems, and components, both under normal operating conditions and during transients that challenge safety. Once this Preliminary Report is approved, it becomes possible to issue the Construction License for the project, even if accompanied by conditions and non-blocking requirements,\u201d ANSN said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"60\" data-block-id=\"9\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">The view that the bottleneck is essentially managerial is shared by representatives of the nuclear market, who for years have warned of CNEN\u2019s difficulty in advancing the project even when funding is available. For\u00a0<strong>Celso Cunha<\/strong>, president of the Brazilian Association for the Development of Nuclear Activities (ABDAN), the inability to execute is the main obstacle to completing the project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"86\" data-block-id=\"10\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">\u201cI firmly believe this is a management problem. We have a research institution managing the construction of a reactor, a major project. That\u2019s not the usual skill set of this type of institution. It requires a whole body of work that is not trivial. Large engineering companies are used to doing this. That\u2019s why it concerns us, and we are not seeing a reaction from the institution [the Institute for Energy and Nuclear Research (IPEN), CNEN\u2019s technical-scientific unit in S\u00e3o Paulo] in that direction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"33\" data-block-id=\"12\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">CNEN said the reactor is estimated at R$3 billion, with complementary laboratory and infrastructure facilities totaling R$2 billion. The commission attributes the slow pace to the budgetary and institutional context of recent years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"69\" data-block-id=\"13\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">\u201cProjects like the RMB require a strong budgetary and institutional base. The RMB was incorporated into the New PAC in 2023 and treated as a priority by the MCTI. For the RMB to be completed, continuous financial and institutional commitment is essential. In 2025, the ministry and CNEN held the ceremony marking the start of infrastructure works, signaling the transition to the practical phase of implementation,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"54\" data-block-id=\"14\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">\u201cInfrastructure works at the site are being completed (earthworks, bridge, access roads, and internal roads). As for licensing, the environmental permit [from\u00a0<strong>federal environmental agency IBAMA<\/strong>] has already been issued, and nuclear licensing has begun, which continues throughout the entire implementation process until the final stage, when the operating permit is issued,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"47\" data-block-id=\"15\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">The MCTI, in turn, said execution of the works and allocation of resources will take place \u201cover the next five years,\u201d until completion of the complex. Both ANSN and ABDAN agree that the project has been structured in a highly centralized manner, with too few professionals involved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"42\" data-block-id=\"16\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">While the RMB is not completed, Brazil remains dependent on imported radioisotopes. Today, virtually all supplies come from the Netherlands, Russia, and, to a lesser extent, Israel. The fact that the latter two countries are involved in geopolitical conflicts makes supply unstable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"74\" data-block-id=\"17\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">The situation is already affecting public healthcare services. In a statement, the president of the Brazilian Society of Nuclear Medicine (SBMN),\u00a0<strong>Elba Etchebehere<\/strong>, pointed out that the country faces \u201cpersistent shortages resulting from production capacities that still do not fully meet the sector\u2019s needs,\u201d and that only about one-third of national demand for radiopharmaceuticals is currently met. For her, expanding production is essential to stabilize supply and ensure public access to exams and treatments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"79\" data-block-id=\"19\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">The domestic structure responsible for processing part of these inputs also faces limitations\u2014this time, regulatory. According to a letter sent by ABDAN to ANSN, reviewed by Valor, IPEN\u2019s radiopharmacy currently does not have an active operating authorization due to infrastructure and regulatory compliance issues. The facility was at one point shut down by the Health Surveillance Coordination Office and, according to the association, remains barred from expanding capacity or making structural changes until documentation for license renewal is submitted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"56\" data-block-id=\"20\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">These materials are processed at IPEN, but because they are imported, a significant portion loses effectiveness during transit before reaching Brazil. The race against the clock is due to the so-called \u201chalf-life.\u201d Radioisotopes have a specific physical behavior: they degrade rapidly. \u201cHalf-life\u201d refers to the time it takes for half of a radioactive substance to decay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"30\" data-block-id=\"21\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\"><strong>Brazil\u2019s situation contrasts with that of neighboring countries<\/strong>. Argentina already produces radioisotopes that Brazil cannot, reinforcing perceptions of technological lag and a lack of planning in the country\u2019s nuclear sector.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-track-category=\"multicontent\" data-track-action=\"ultimo chunk conteudo\" data-track-noninteraction=\"false\" data-track-scroll=\"view\">\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"50\" data-block-id=\"22\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">The RMB would eliminate this problem. The reactor would have an impact not only on healthcare but also on science, technology, and industry. According to the MCTI, the project is designed to support the development of domestic technology for manufacturing nuclear fuels and materials used in\u00a0<strong>research<\/strong>\u00a0and power reactors.<\/p>\n<p data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">*By\u00a0Robson Rodrigues\u00a0and\u00a0Isa Morena Vista\u00a0\u2014 S\u00e3o Paulo<\/p>\n<p data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article links\">Source: Valor International<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/valorinternational.globo.com\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian Multipurpose Reactor project drags on amid delays and revisions &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 12\/17\/2025\u00a0 Radiopharmaceuticals are used in cancer diagnostics and therapies \u2014 Photo: Divulga\u00e7\u00e3o ABDAN Nearly two decades after the government promised a reactor capable of producing radioisotopes\u2014radioactive elements that underpin radiopharmaceuticals used in cancer diagnostics and therapies\u2014Brazil remains far from having the equipment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8106],"tags":[26659,26660],"class_list":["post-96946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-murray-news","tag-brazilian-multipurpose-reactor-project","tag-drags-on-amid-delays-and-revisions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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