A política nuclear brasileira até 1964

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Tomé Sudário Gomes Ferraz dos
• Orientador(a): Martins, Lilian Al-Chueyr Pereira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em História da Ciência
• Departamento: História da Ciência
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Política nuclear; Energia nuclear > Brasil; Politica nuclear > Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Nuclear energy
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA::HISTORIA DAS CIENCIAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13371

This dissertation analyses a period of the Brazilian nuclear energy policy, from 1945 to the military coup of 1964. During this period Brazil sold a large amount of strategic minerals (thorium) to the United States and, although there was a national effort to control atomic energy, successive difficulties frustrated those expectations. Throughout the 20 years studied in this dissertation, it is possible to notice a strong American influence on the Brazilian nuclear policy, and the opposition between nationalistic tendencies (that intended to develop an independent nuclear technology in Brazil) and the tendencies that defended a dependency as regards the United States. It seems that the permanent conflict between those opposite forces contributed significantly to cause the downfall of the Brazilian nuclear program