Povos Tradicionais e a Questão Nuclear: conflitos socioambientais e resistências à central nuclear em Itacuruba

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to question the socio-polit-ical field related to the implementation of the Nuclear Power Plant of the Northeastern in Itacuruba County, Pernambuco State – Brazil. Our analysis takes into account the place of traditional peoples in the arena of socio-environmental conflicts. The current scenario points towards the consolidation of a nuclear policy that takes prioritizes factors such as the military relevance of nuclear technologies and the sophistication embodied by the nuclear technology, which is seen as the power source of the future. Accordingly, traditional communities living in Itacuruba have made a list of confrontations to assure protection to their specific territorialities due to the implementation of the nuclear complex in São Francisco River. Such amendments establish a repertoire of collective actions and political con-frontations in Sertão do Pernambuco region.