Bolsonaro extends committee that studies construction of Angra 3 Plant for 240 days

President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) extended the interministerial committee that carries out studies on the implementation of the Angra 3 Thermonuclear Plant for another 240 days. The decree allows this period to be extended for another four months.

The government states that the technical, financial and legal studies have already been contracted and that, after these analyzes are completed, they will be submitted to the National Energy Policy Committee.

According to the Executive, the extension “will enable the satisfactory conclusion of the collegiate’s plans, opening the way for the implementation of the plant, strategic for the development of the thermonuclear sector in Brazil”.

“As the conclusion of the studies by the BNDES took longer than initially planned, it became necessary to extend the period of operation of the committee”, stated the General Secretariat of the Presidency.

The extension of the collegiate term was published in Diário da União extra published this Tuesday (26).

Initiated in the 1980s, the implementation of Angra 3 was paralyzed in that decade and resumed in the government of former President Lula (PT) in 2009.

But the project was suspended again in 2015, after one of the contractors hired for the work admitted irregularities amid investigations into Operation Lava Jato, which uncovered a huge corruption scandal in Brazil.

In 2019, Bolsonaro qualified the nuclear plant, under the responsibility of state-owned Eletrobras, to the Federal Government’s Investment Partnerships Program (PPI).

Now, the president has extended the work period of the collegiate that studies the plant’s implementation.