Due to reasons out of the scope of this article, important investments in the electric sector were delayed, increasing the risk of power shortages in Brazil in the near future, with serious impacts on industrial production and quality of life. Among the projects being studied by the Ministry of Energy to be operative in time to reduce that risk are the Angra III nuclear power plant and some hidro power plants in Northern Brazil, what raises doubts and provokes debates in the press, chiefly about the costs of the energy produced. In this article we try clear up some of these doubts.
Nuclear power plants; Power generation costs
