Grandes Projetos, Tecnologia e Questão Ambiental: Carajás e Energia Nuclear

Abstract

The desire of growth aiming at international economic integration and the need of adjustment to energy crisis as well as world economic difficulties have constituted a stimulus to investments in big projects such as Nuclear Energy Project and that of Carajás. In addition to an expanding of foreign debt so preventing souvereign national development, the installation of big projects represents a threat to large sectors of the population and space, through exploitation of resources. Considering the lack of previous studies of environmental impacts plus scientific knowledge to back such projects, this work purports to (1) briefly expose Carajás and Nuclear programs; (2) raise conceptual issues as well as possible consequences for the country. Main points will be summarised and certain criteria for a technological eva luation will be examined.