Programmes and agreements / prg-br-government-rosatom-smr-cooperation

Brazil Ministry of Mines and Energy and Rosatom (Tenex) cooperation on uranium and small modular reactors (2025)

During a May 2025 mission to Russia, Brazil's Ministry of Mines and Energy signed an agreement with Rosatom subsidiary Tenex to map Brazil's uranium potential and the development of small nuclear plants, and the minister said Brazil would form a partnership with Rosatom on small modular reactors. No design, site, order or follow-on agreement has been verified.

Not a deployment project. SMR plans, agreements, studies and government programmes that are not (yet) a single deployment project. They are listed separately and are never counted as projects or reactors.

Type

Cooperation agreement or MOU

Countries concerned

Brazil

Participants and roles

• Government: Ministério de Minas e Energia (MME)
• Developer or vendor: Tenex (Rosatom subsidiary)
• Developer or vendor: Rosatom

Designs named

—

Scale as stated

SMRs of 10-300 MW discussed in general, no unit count, design or site

Announced or first reported

May 2025

Status

Status not established
Agreement/announced partnership, no design, site, order or follow-up instrument verified

Confidence

low

Last checked

2026-10-14 (record review date, not proof of current activity)

Related deployment projects

• No related deployment project is recorded here.

Sources

• MME firma acordo com estatal russa para avanço da energia nuclear no Brasil (reputable_press, published 12 May 2025, accessed 2026-10-14)
• Brasil vai fechar parceria com a Rússia para reatores nucleares (reputable_press, published 12 May 2025, accessed 2026-10-14)
• Brazil and Russia preparing to develop SMR options (reputable_press, published 15 May 2025, accessed 2026-10-14)