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Brazil cools on nuclear power plans; favors wind
2013-09-15 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Brazil will probably scale down its plans for new nuclear plants due to safety concerns following the 2011 radiation leak in Japan and pick up some of the slack with a "revolution" in wind power, the head of the government's energy planning agency said. Mauricio Tolmasquim, chief of the Energy Research Company, told Reuters it was "unlikely" the government would stick to its plans to build four new nuclear plants by 2030 to meet rising demand for electricity. He declined to specify how many...
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