Brazilian uranium miner seeks help in going underground

Brazilian media have reported that the State-owned uranium company, Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB – Nuclear Industries of Brazil) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a subsidiary of the Russian State-owned nuclear group Rosatom. The subsidiary is the U1 Group, better known as Uranium One, which is (according to its website) responsible for Rosatom’s uranium production outside the borders of the Russian Federation and is the world’s number four uranium producer. INB is responsible for the mining, concentration and enrichment of uranium, and for the manufacture of uranium dioxide fuel pellets and the fabrication of fuel assemblies for Brazil’s Angra 1 and Angra 2 nuclear power plants.