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Article: Brazil, China weigh nuclear trade deal.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- May 26, 2004
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Byline: Kevin G. Hall
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil _ One day after announcing that Brazil was negotiating the export of uranium and nuclear technologies to China, the Brazilian government Wednesday tried to calm fears raised by the potential accord.
"Brazil has not made any decision," Eduardo Campos, Brazil's science and technology minister, told the state news agency Agencia Brasil on Wednesday during a state visit to China.
In a news release later Wednesday, Campos tried to distance Brazil from declarations a day earlier that Brazil and China would negotiate the sale of non-processed uranium to supply 11 new nuclear reactors in China. Profits from ...