{"id":75857,"date":"2026-08-18T19:05:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.entroncamentoonline.pt\/portal\/?p=75857"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:46:33","slug":"nacional-portugal-mantem-7-000-toneladas-de-uranio-identificadas-sem-planos-de-atualizacao-numa-altura-de-aumento-de-20-no-preco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entroncamentoonline.pt\/portal\/nacional-portugal-mantem-7-000-toneladas-de-uranio-identificadas-sem-planos-de-atualizacao-numa-altura-de-aumento-de-20-no-preco\/","title":{"rendered":"Nacional: Portugal mant\u00e9m 7.000 toneladas de ur\u00e2nio identificadas, sem planos de atualiza\u00e7\u00e3o numa altura de aumento de 20% no pre\u00e7o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">O pre\u00e7o do <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">ur\u00e2nio<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> est\u00e1 atualmente cerca de <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">20% acima<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> do valor registado h\u00e1 um ano, num contexto marcado pelo aumento da procura de energia nuclear, incluindo para alimentar centros de dados associados \u00e0 intelig\u00eancia artificial.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Portugal, que tem <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">hist\u00f3rico mineiro de 90 anos<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> ligado ao r\u00e1dio e ao ur\u00e2nio, n\u00e3o tem neste momento qualquer iniciativa para avaliar os recursos existentes no subsolo. O pa\u00eds explorou cerca de <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">60 minas<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> at\u00e9 ao encerramento da <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Urgeiri\u00e7a<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, no distrito de Viseu, em 2001, tendo extra\u00eddo aproximadamente <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">3.700 toneladas<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> ao longo desse per\u00edodo.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">O <\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Jornal Econ\u00f3mico<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> refere que Portugal poder\u00e1 ter \u201c<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">cerca de 6.400 toneladas<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201d de recursos, embora o jornal n\u00e3o atribua esta estimativa a fontes oficiais. J\u00e1 o <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Red Book<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> da Ag\u00eancia Internacional de Energia At\u00f3mica e da Ag\u00eancia de Energia Nuclear da OCDE aponta para <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">7.000 toneladas de recursos identificados in situ<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, das quais <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">5.300 toneladas<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> seriam recuper\u00e1veis. O relat\u00f3rio assinala que a avalia\u00e7\u00e3o portuguesa n\u00e3o foi atualizada nos cinco anos anteriores.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Entre as \u00e1reas referidas como tendo potencial por estudar est\u00e3o <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Nisa<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> (Portalegre) e <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Horta da Vilari\u00e7a<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> (Bragan\u00e7a). Mas os especialistas divergem sobre o grau de conhecimento existente.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">O ex\u2011diretor da Dire\u00e7\u00e3o\u2011Geral de Energia e Geologia, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">M\u00e1rio Guedes<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, afirma que o ur\u00e2nio \u00e9 \u201c<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">talvez o \u00fanico potencial mineiro relativamente conhecido<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201d do pa\u00eds. J\u00e1 o ge\u00f3logo <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Jo\u00e3o Vermelho Neves<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> considera que a quantidade permanece uma inc\u00f3gnita: \u201c<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">sabemos que temos, mas n\u00e3o sabemos quanto<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201d, dizendo que n\u00e3o \u00e9 poss\u00edvel falar em reservas.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">O <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Minist\u00e9rio do Ambiente e da Energia<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> confirmou ao <\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Jornal Econ\u00f3mico<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> que <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201cn\u00e3o est\u00e1 em curso qualquer iniciativa\u201d<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> para avaliar o potencial nacional ou reabrir antigas explora\u00e7\u00f5es. Vermelho Neves entende que o quadro legal aprovado em 2021 e alterado em 2022 cria entraves \u00e0 prospe\u00e7\u00e3o, afirmando que qualquer pedido seria \u201c<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">chumbado \u00e0 partida<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201d. M\u00e1rio Guedes acrescenta que \u201c<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">a opini\u00e3o p\u00fablica \u00e9 fortemente contra<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A associa\u00e7\u00e3o <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Ambiente nas Zonas Uran\u00edferas (AZU)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> mant\u00e9m oposi\u00e7\u00e3o a qualquer reativa\u00e7\u00e3o de minas. O presidente, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Ant\u00f3nio Minhoto<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, afirma que j\u00e1 foram gastos mais de <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">100 milh\u00f5es de euros<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> na recupera\u00e7\u00e3o ambiental, ainda por concluir, classificando o hist\u00f3rico mineiro como \u201c<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">um desastre econ\u00f3mico, social, ambiental e humano<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">No mercado internacional, o pre\u00e7o <\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">spot<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> do ur\u00e2nio rondava os <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">86 d\u00f3lares por libra<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> no final de julho, cerca de <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">21% acima<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> do valor de h\u00e1 um ano. Empresas como <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Amazon, Meta e Microsoft<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> t\u00eam firmado acordos relacionados com energia nuclear, numa altura em que a procura energ\u00e9tica dos centros de dados cresce.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A produ\u00e7\u00e3o mundial est\u00e1 concentrada, com o <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Cazaquist\u00e3o<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> a representar cerca de <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">40%<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> do total. A mineira canadiana Cameco, citando estimativas da UxC, calcula em <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">3,1 mil milh\u00f5es de libras<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> as necessidades de ur\u00e2nio das empresas el\u00e9tricas ainda sem cobertura contratual at\u00e9 2045.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Libre Franklin, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Segundo o <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Red Book<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, os recursos recuper\u00e1veis identificados no mundo somavam <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">7,9 milh\u00f5es de toneladas<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> a 1 de janeiro de 2023. As <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">5.300 toneladas<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> atribu\u00eddas a Portugal representam <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">menos de 0,1%<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> desse total. O relat\u00f3rio sublinha que os dados nacionais est\u00e3o desatualizados e, por enquanto, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">n\u00e3o existe qualquer processo em curso para os rever<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.entroncamentoonline.pt\/portal\/nacional-portugal-mantem-7-000-toneladas-de-uranio-identificadas-sem-planos-de-atualizacao-numa-altura-de-aumento-de-20-no-preco\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O pre\u00e7o do ur\u00e2nio est\u00e1 atualmente cerca de 20% acima do valor registado h\u00e1 um ano, num contexto marcado pelo aumento da procura de energia nuclear, incluindo para alimentar centros de dados associados \u00e0 intelig\u00eancia artificial. Portugal, que tem hist\u00f3rico mineiro de 90 anos ligado ao r\u00e1dio e ao ur\u00e2nio, n\u00e3o tem neste momento qualquer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":75858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,52,70,32],"tags":[470,471,465,469],"class_list":["post-75857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-1apagina","category-geral","category-mais-noticias","category-noticias","tag-7000-toneladas","tag-minas","tag-portugal","tag-uranio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entroncamentoonline.pt\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entroncamentoonline.pt\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entroncamentoonline.pt\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entroncamentoonline.pt\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entroncamentoonline.pt\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.entroncamentoonline.pt\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75859,"href":"https:\/\/www.entroncamentoonline.pt\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75857\/revisions\/75859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entroncamentoonline.pt\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entroncamentoonline.pt\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entroncamentoonline.pt\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entroncamentoonline.pt\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}