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EFE: 07/05/2008-18:18:00

Brazil promotes ambitious nuclear program

Rio de Janeiro, May 7 (EFE).- Brazil plans to move ahead over the next few years with an ambitious nuclear program that includes power plants and an atomic submarine, Science and Technology Minister Sergio Rezende said Wednesday.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's administration has been discussing the entire program in a more open manner, the minister told foreign reporters in Rio de Janeiro.

"The president is close to signing an executive order to create the Committee for the Development of the Brazilian Nuclear Program," Rezende said.

The program would deal with uranium enrichment, planning for new nuclear power plants and expanding the number of professionals trained in nuclear medicine.

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