Brazil nuclear reactor gets environmental license

The Associated Press
Published: March 5, 2009

SAO PAULO: Brazil's state nuclear energy company says it has received environmental approval to resume construction of the country's third nuclear power plant.
Eletronuclear says in a statement released Thursday that the license granted by Brazil's environmental protection agency is valid for six years.
Construction on the Angra 3 plant has been held up since the 1980s by environmental concerns.
Eletronuclear says Angra 3 will have an installed capacity of about 1,400 megawatts and should be operating by late 2014.
Brazil's two other nuclear power plants have a total capacity of about 2,000 megawatts.