Brazil plans to open uranium mining to private capital, allowing partnerships
with private firms provided the state nuclear fuel-cycle company retains at
at least a 20% equity stake in each project. A draft regulation would permit the
state monopoly on the nuclear fuel cycle to publicly tender joint
mineral-exploration projects and to collaborate with private companies on
uranium and other nuclear-mineral extraction, processing, industrialization and
sales. The proposal is under review at the presidential civil office and the
Ministry of Mines and Energy and may be amended, Agência iNFRA reported late
last month.
