Techno-Scientific Sovereignty and Echoes of the Cold War? Specific Compensation Policy and Uranium Ultra-Centrifugation in Brazil

Recent reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) highlight the alignment of the agency’s interests with Brazil’s atomic energy program, emphasizing its professionalism, transparency, and receptiveness. However, IAEA inspections have not always been free from political tensions in Latin America, incidents reviewed here. If there was a historic transition in international governance and Brazilian sovereignty based on uranium enrichment, when and how did it occur? Documentary analyses allow us to infer that the period 2003-2004 was crucial for guaranteeing Brazil’s industrial property rights and normalizing diplomatic, defense and energy relations with the IAEA and the USA.