Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil
Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil is a BRA company active in the nuclear fuel chain as mining, enrichment, fabrication.
Brazil's state nuclear fuel company, and the only organisation outside the Urenco partnership, Japan and the weapon states running centrifuge enrichment in a non-weapon state. It mines at Caetité, enriches at Resende on machines developed by the Brazilian navy, and fabricates fuel on the same site, under safeguards applied by the binational ABACC agency as well as the IAEA.
| Headquarters | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1988 |
| Ownership | state |
| Roles in the chain | mining, enrichment, fabrication |
Position in the chain
Downstream
Output from this company feeds the stages below it in the chain, and ultimately 419 operating reactors across these types.
| Reactor type | Operating units |
|---|---|
| Pressurised water reactor | 309 |
| Pressurised heavy water reactor | 46 |
| Boiling water reactor | 45 |
| Gas-cooled reactor | 9 |
| Light water graphite reactor | 7 |
| Fast reactor | 2 |
| High-temperature gas reactor | 1 |
Facilities
| Facility | Stage | Country | Capacity / output | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resende enrichment plant | enrichment | BRA | 50tSWU/yr | operating |
| Resende | fabrication | BRA | 240tHM/yr | operating |
| Caetité (Lagoa Real) | mining | BRA | 340tU/yr | operating |
Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil in context
Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil has 3 facilities on record in 1 country (Brazil): 3 operating. The oldest operating one was commissioned in 2000.
How these are worked out: shares and ranks use the world totals cited in the table, and only named companies are ranked (unnamed or country-level entries in a source are not). A facility with no stated capacity is counted as a facility but adds nothing to a capacity figure. Vendor figures count operating units where this company is the recorded reactor vendor; ages count from the start-up year on record, and build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the age and build-times pages.
Sources
- Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil, company source
- Global Nuclear Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, August 2026 release , CC BY 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-06
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