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2016 LAS/ANS SYMPOSIUM
JOSÉ CARLOS CASTRO - INB
INDÚSTRIAS NUCLEARES DO BRASIL - INBNuclear Fuel Cycle
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BRAZILIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
CTMSP
Presidente da República
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia , Inovações e
Comunicações
Ministério das Minas e Energia
Ministério da Defesa
Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear Centrais Elétricas
Brasileiras S.A.Marinha do Brasil
Nuclebras Equipamentos Pesados
S.A.
Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil S.A.
Eletronuclear S.A.
FUEL ELEMENT FABRICATION
POWER GENERATION
URANIUM MINING AND U3O8
CONCENTRATE PRODUCTION
CONVERSÃO OF U3O8
INTO UF6
ISOTOPIC ENRICHMENT
UO2 FUEL PELLET
FABRICATION
CONVERSION FROM UF6
INTO UO2 POWDER
NUCLEARFUELCYCLE
DISTRIBUTION OF INB’S FACILITIES
FUEL FABRICATION PLANTResende /Rio de Janeiro State
CAETITÉ Uranium Mine/MillingCaetité/ Bahia State
Santa Quiteria Project
Uranium/Phospate
Ceará State
UNIT 1
UNIT 3
UNIT 2
URANIUM GEOLOGICAL RESERVES
Deposits
t U3O8
Measured/ Indicated
Inferred Total
Caetité / Lagoa Real
94,000 6,700 100,770
Santa Quitéria
91,200 51,300 142,500
Others 36,500 26,600 66,100
Total 224,700 84,670 309,370
PROGNOSTICATED: PITINGA (AM): 150,000RIO CRISTALINO (PA): 150,000
SPECULATIVE: 500,000
URANIUM GEOLOGICAL
RESOURCESEspinharas
URANIUM MINE PROJECTS IN BRAZIL
SANTA QUITÉRIAIN CEARÁ STATEUranium mineralization is
associated with phosphate rock
CAETITÉIN BAHIA STATEUranium mineralization consists of uraninite.
Caetité - Mining and Milling Plant
NOMINAL CAPACITY: 400 TONNES/YEARSTART OF OPERATION: DEZ/ 1999
Satelite image - URANIUM CONCENTRATE UNIT (URA)
Mine
Chemical Plant
Ponds
Tailings
MINA DA CACHOEIRA
Cachoeira Mine: Extraction of ore (Bodies 1, 2 and 3)
Acess to Underground Mine
Ore body 1
Ore body 3
Ore body 2
UNDERGROUND MINE – OPENING OF THE RAMP
CAETITÉ AREA
ANOMALIES
Cachoeira
Quebradas
Engenho
Laranjeiras
Rabicha
Modesto
CONSORTIUMINB-GALVANI
SANTA QUITÉRIA PROJECT
Final Products:
- MAP (Monoammonium Phosphate)- BCP (Dicalcium Phosphate)- Urânio Concentrate - U3O8
Santa Quiteria Project
Phosphate-uranium deposit
Uranium-bearing phosphate
Total reserves: 80 millions t
Average content: 11% P2O5 0,1% U3O8
Reserves :
Phospate: 9 millions t P2O5
Uranium: 80 mil t U3O8
Uranium production – 1,600 t / ano
Startup - early 2019
PRODUCTION OF URANIUM CONCENTRATE
SANTA QUITÉRIA PROJECT
View of the Ore
Detail of the Ore
DISTRIBUTION OF INB’S FACILITIES
FUEL FABRICATION PLANTResende /Rio de Janeiro State
CAETITÉ Uranium Mine/MillCaetité/ Bahia State
Santa Quiteria Project
Uranium/Phospate
Ceará State
UNIT 1
UNIT 3
UNIT 2
CONVERSION OF
U3O8 INTO UF6
Present Situation
Engineering works are underway
A basic design is under preparation
Capacity : 1,500 t UF6/year
Decision to erect the plant is being
evaluated
INB is erecting a demonstration plant of
isotopic enrichment using centrifuge
technology developed in Brazil
1st: phase : 125 t SWU/year
In the initial phase 10 cascades will be in
production until 2018
We have presently 6 cascades in operation
First utilization of EUP produced in Brazil
was made in 2015 in Angra 1 (40% of 22nd
reload)
In 2016 EUP produced in Brazil will be used
in Argentina reactor CAREM
FCN ENRIQUECIMENTO
ISOTOPIC ENRICHMENT
Capacity:
160 t/year of UO2
CONVERSION FROM UF6
INTO UO2 POWDER
FCN RECONVERSÃO
CAPACITY : 120 t UO2 /year
FCN PASTILHAS
PELLET PRODUCTION
Nominal capacity: 240 tU/year, in two shifts.
FCN COMPONENTES e MONTAGEM
Fuel Assembly Fabrication
Fuel Assemblies Fabrication
FCN COMPONENTES e MONTAGEM
Brazil has substantial amount of uranium reserves.
The possibilities to discover important additional uranium reserves
are very high
The prospection works have stopped in the eighties and was limited
in terms of areas covered and also the use of new technologies
According to Brazilian law fuel cycle activities are a Monopoly of the
Brazilian State. INB explores these activities in the name of the
Government.
Key Issues
KEY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
Nuclear Fuel Cycle
INB has a “flexible” Monopoly. Very few people realize this.
Partnership with private companies is already authorized by law
The obligation is to retain 51% of the shares. Major U producers have
demonstrated their interest to establish partnership with INB in the
uranium area. The 51% HAS NEVER been the obstacle.
The key obstacle is the legal framework to receive authorization to
export uranium products. The real challenge is to convince the
Government to establish an Export Policy of Nuclear Materials
Without such assurances private companies are not interested to
invest in the nuclear fuel cycle in Brazil to produce uranium compounds.
Key Issues
KEY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
Nuclear Fuel Cycle
