The agreement on peaceful use of nuclear power, which almost no one in Germany knows, is half a century old in late June. This defined the anti-German nuclear movement, closing Chernobal’s nuclear disasters in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011 and even atomic phase-out Germany’s last three nuclear power plants in 2023.
The treaty is aimed at building eight nuclear power plants, a uranium enrichment plant and a nuclear renovation plant in Brazil by Siemens, including training for scientists.
The signators were the German coalition government of the Center-Left Social Democrats (SPD) and on the one hand under the Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, the military dictatorship of Brazil, headed by Ernesto Giselle, on the other, and the other.
“It was observed in 1975 as the biggest technology agreement of the century, the enthusiasm was very large on both sides,” recalls 73-year-old German-Brazilian sociologist Luiz Ramlho in an interview with DW. Ramalho is the president of the Latin America Forum in Berlin and has been a critic from the beginning.
Hey ended the treaty, which is possible only every five years, the work of his life. At the end of 2024, he thought that O almost the central-class government reached its target with SPD, environmentalist greens and FDP.
At that time there was a conversation in the ministry, and on November 18, a termination was investigated in view of the notice period. But then the government separated in November 2024.
Many atempts by greens to eliminate nuclear deal
The Green Party wants to end the German-Brazilian nuclear deal for a long time. Ultimately, Greens is a party that developed from anti -nuclear protests in the 1980s.
In 2004, the then-Green Federal Environment Minister Jurgen Tritin Tritin tried unsuccessfully to convert the nuclear deal for renewable energy into one. Ten years later, the immediate proposal of Greens to protest against the abolition of nuclear agreements with Brazil and India failed due to resistance from the coalition government of Orthodox Christian Democrats, its Bavarian Sister Party, the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), and SPD, Chancellor Angela (CDU).
For Greens, Bundestag member Harald is the result of cooperation. “Even in the drawing board, six of the eight nuclear power plants states in agriculture failed. But there are so many two, but one success: Angra -3 became a 40 -year -old incomplete construction site, and a single block, Angra -2 24 -year -old construction as the world’s most expensive nuclear power plant at that time,” he wrote DW.
However, the Angra-2 is susceptible to earthquakes, landlines and floods, while more and more dangerous nuclear waste is accumulating on the waste site, for which there is no solution, said Abner. In other words, there is Nover to store atomic waste produced there. His conclusion: “Both Brazil and Germany were on the wrong track with agreement, which failed in many cases.”
Nuclear power when the world grows up again?
For Abnar, the atomic power is in the past, but not everyone gives it a lake like this. Conversely: It is experiencing an Renaissance worldwide. For a study by the International Energy Agency (IEA), more than 40 countries are trying to expand nuclear power to meet the increasing demand for electricity.
In Brazil, nuclear power is just 3% of power generation. However, President Luiz Inecio Lula da Silva, who was important for nuclear power, expressed great interest in Russia’s experience with small nuclear power plants at a meeting in Moscow with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
And even in Germany, the debate on the use of nuclear power, which is considered dead, has re -raised. However designer Chancellor Angela Merkel, in 2011 through the German nuclear phase-out, after the nuclear reactor disaster in Fukushima, Japan in 2011, during the previous Bundestag election campaign, during the previous Bundestag Election Campaign, the Prime Minister of Baymen, Bavian Prime Minister Marcus Soder, was called among others, which was called to the repapious of three decripped nuclear power plants.
The new minister of economic affairs, Kathrina Reach from the CDU, is therefore open for the use of nuclear power. He recently met the so -called European nuclear alliance with Coleguse, discovering the Association of Countrys France, Sweden and Poland that uses nuclear power.
What does it mean to the German-Brazilian nuclear deal? Thomas Silbarhorn, a CDU member of the German Bundestag and a long-time member of the German-Brazilian Group, told DW: “Agreement is an early example of technical partnership and hence a milestone in our bilateral relations. New technologies and energy policy remains relevant to freedom and give importance to the entire Europe.”
However, the future of the half -century old nuclear deal may depend on SPD in the government. Nina Sheer, a spokesman of the Energy Policy for the SPD Parliament Group in the German Bundestag, wrote to DW: “The coalition agreement provides for the intensity of strategic partnership with Brazil. It involves renewed freshly compromised newly compromised newly compromised.
Uranium deal with Russia
Mirium TornPartha will undoubtedly be happy to hear this. That anti -German nuclear organization “Broadcast E. V.” Working on, which was found in 2008 and has been campaigning for the end of the German-Brazilian nuclear deal over the years. “This cooperation is only older and not included, for example, any security aspects should be included from today’s point of view,” Tornpurthy told DW.
The controversial agreement has become especially explosive due to the latest geopolitical development, especially Russian wars of aggression against Ukraine. This is because the French nuclear company in collaboration with foreign rosatome produces fuel rods for nuclear power plants in Lower Saxony. The state-down Russian nuclear industry company, in turn, concluded to compromise with Brazil for the supply of uranium in 2022.
“We believe that Russian content is processed in Gronau uranium enrichment schemes in Northern Rhine-Westphalia and Lingen. Unlike other forms of energy, the Russian nuclear industry is therefore exempted from restrictions,” Torniportha is called.
“As Germany has shut down its nuclear power plants, it would be rational so that plans in Gronau and Lingen are discontinued to complete the nuclear phase-out.”
This article was original in German.
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