The course of Brazilian nuclear policy is changing. Under a democratic government, Brazil enters its fifth phase of nuclear development. This country is struggling harder to master the nuclear cycle with primitive means and, at the same time, to acquire a wide range of nuclear technologies. Political instability, a great dependence on external financing and the international economic situation, a high degree of rejection of any type of foreign political interference, and the problems of exercising effective political leadership in a very heterogeneous society, make any nuclear program in Brazil it is a candidate for great changes. Brazil is probably one of the best examples of extreme exposure to changes in political or economic priorities of nuclear programs in Third World countries, which are considerably higher than those in advanced industrialized countries.
Grabendorff, W. (1987). La política nuclear y de no-proliferación de Brasil. Estudios Internacionales, 20(80), p. 520–568. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.1987.15707
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