Brazil joins nuclear family
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil AP
— Brazil officially joined the
ranks of the world's nuclear
powered this weekend — but
without the boldness and con
fidence that once caused the
United States concern
The nation's first nuclear
power station, called Angra I,
began generating small
amounts of energy Saturday
night The start-up came after
five years of delays and cost
overruns and amid new ques
tions about potential radiation
hazards
"Angra I will operate initially
at only 5 percent capacity." said
Tulio Baptists Teixeira, the chief
spokesman for a government
electricity company called Fur
nas, which runs the plant
During the last decade, the
project had led to concern
about Brazil becoming a nu
clear force Brazil, Latin Amer
ica’s largest country and not a
signer of the International Trea
ty on the Nonproliferation of
Nuclear Weapons, had
announced highly ambitious
atomic energy development
plans
The United States balked at
Brazil's refusal to sign the treaty
and also at a 1975 Brazil-West
German pact for additional An
gra reactors that promised to
give Brazil access to technology
that could be used to construct
nuclear weapons
The Angra I reactor was built
by Westinghouse Co. on a
"turnkey” basis. This means the
Americans simply would pre
sent the Brazilians with a fin
ished, working reactor, without
giving them any of the sophis
ticated technology that went
into it.
Because of this, Brazil — over
the strong objections of the
Nixon and Carter administra
tions — sought out another nu
clear supplier that would be
willing to give it technology
along with the physical equip
ment
Relations with the Reagan
administration seem to be
smoother During a visit last
year by Vice President George
Bush, the United States agreed
to sell Brazil enriched uranium
fuel A spokesman for Bush said
at the time that the United States
was willing to waive regulations
restricting the uranium sales in
the interest of promoting
cooperation with Brazil. The
Brazilian government says it did
not sign the nonproliferation
treaty because it does not want
to foreclose the possibility of
making nuclear devices for
peaceful uses, such as jungle
clearing
Brazil, which is the 19th na
tion to use nuclear power, has
trimmed its initial plans for con
struction of eight German-de
signed reactors, and the Amer
ican built reactor will move
toward full capacity slowly.
"If everything goes OK, we’ll
take the reactor up to 10 per
cent, then to 20, and then to 30
percent capacity,” Teixeira
said. “This should take 30 to 45
days.” The full capacity of An
gra I is 626,000 kilowatts.
Poland’s Archbishop
urges Walesa’s release
WARSAW, Poland AP — Poland's Roman Catholic primate, at
the largest public assembly since the military crackdown, implored
martial law authorities Sunday to free Dech Walesa
Walesa, national chairman of the suspended labor movement
Solidarity, has been sequestered since the regime's sweeping
military crackdown three months ago
Archbishop Jozef Glemp's pleas came as Warsaw Pact troops
staged the first military exercises in Poland since Premier Gen
Wojciech Jaruzelski imposed martial law Dec 13
"Let's pray for Lech Walesa to be released, so he can stand
again His presence doesn't threaten anybody," Glemp told more
than 20,000 people in the square outside St John's Catholic
Church in the Warsaw suburb of Ursus
Glemp — who characterized his audience as the largest "in our
homeland since imposition of martial law” — said Poles "need
agreement, and national accord This gathering today is a step
towards that "
Walesa's freedom, the archbishop said, "will be the way to
agreement and national accord "
The spirtual leader of Poland's more than 30 million Roman
Catholics chose Ursus — where the giant tractor factory by the
same name was a Solidarity stronghold — to make his first specific
appeal for Walesa's release Sources say Walesa, the charismatic
leader of the suspended movement's of 9 5 million members, was
transferred recently to a location in Rembertow, east of Warsaw
Walesa's wife has said she expects her husband to be
permitted to attend the baptism March 21 of his infant daughter
Glemp also renewed his call for release of all dissidents
interned by the martial law regime
"We hope that the centers of isolation will be empty soon,"
he said According to the latest official figures, 3.601 Poles are
being held at 25 internment camps
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