Brazil plans nuclear-waste facilities

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 17 (UPI) -- Brazil is planning to build a nuclear-fuel waste facility by 2026 to store waste from the Angra 3 nuclear power plant in Rio de Janeiro.

The plant is expected to come online by November 2014.

Until the waste-storage facility is complete, the waste will be stored in pools that will be built near the plant, Agencia Brasil reports.

The project is being developed by the National Nuclear Energy Commission.

There is also a study being done on the possibility of building a national repository for low and medium radioactive waste, which could be operational by 2018.

Power plant operator Eletronuclear said recycling was considered, but the technology is still too expensive.