{"id":198309,"date":"2007-11-19T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/19\/brazil-looking-at-nuclear-sub-force\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T00:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T05:28:00","slug":"brazil-looking-at-nuclear-sub-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/19\/brazil-looking-at-nuclear-sub-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Looking at Nuclear Sub Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil has<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20071116\/ap_on_re_la_am_ca\/brazil_nuclear_sub_1\">allocated $540 million in R&#038;D on the submarine and on enrichment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They believe that they can build a submarine for $1.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>They already have the enrichment technology down.<\/p>\n<p>The justification is the newly discovered offshore Tupi field and its 5 billion to 8 billion barrels of oil reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, if all they want is an air-independent coastal defense boat, there are options out there, both with stored LOX, and the idea of using a smaller nuke plant, to provide underwater endurance, but not the higher underwater transit speeds of the US fleet submarines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil hasallocated $540 million in R&#038;D on the submarine and on enrichment. They believe that they can build a submarine for $1.2 billion. They already have the enrichment technology down. The justification is the newly discovered offshore Tupi field and its 5 billion to 8 billion barrels of oil reserves. Truth be told, if all &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1068,1161,1042,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-america","category-naval","category-proliferation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}