The MOU also stipulates the production of radio-isotopes and their use in medicine.
On July 21, 2009, Sergey Kiriyenko, director general of Rosatom and Odair Dias Gonsalves, chairman of CNEN signed the MMU.
The agreement for establishing practical cooperation in the field of peaceful use of nuclear energy was reached during the visit of President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev to Brazil in November 2008.
