Nowadays CONTREN's struggle directs itself to:

Contrary to the Brazilian Constitution, which forbids the use of nuclear technology for military puporses, the management civilian nuclear program has been directed by Armed Forces rules without taking under consideration the opinion of society about its purposes, destination and activities control.
The administration of the civil program of nuclear energy is, still today, projected and executed by guidelines traced mainly by the armed forces, with the back-up of entities as CNEN - National Commission of nuclear energy and for the Ministry of Sciences and Technology. These organisms now attempt to build, in partnership with the Navy of Brazilian War, a plant of enrichment of uranium in the facilities of INB - Nuclear Industries of Brasil S.A. to the margins of Rio Paraíba of the South, responsible for more than 70% of the water supply of the population of the State of Rio de Janeiro creating, with this project, a potential situation of risk for an enormous amount of involved inhabitants, without however to consider to be your obligation to put in your discussion projects so that the civil society can say on the directions, the destiny and the control of the nuclear activity.

Brazilian institutions responsible for nuclear normalization have been deliberately discredited by sucessive administrations, thus weakening the inspection activities. The small amount of inspectors all over the country - less than one hundred - is one of the results of such policy.
Other reflections of this policy of life neglect are: lack of information of the people who live near Angra nuclear power plants ; ineficient action by the authorities towards preventing radioactive accidents (as the case of cesium 137, in Goiania); abandonment and/or inadequate storage of thousands of tons of radioactive waste from several industrial origins, and , basically, disregard by the institutions responsible for the prevention of population and environmental contamination.

Even if involuntarily, together with all society, the workers from the nuclear sector who took part in the adventures of a militarist government, are claiming the right to have their qualifications respected in a project much more adapted to the real needs of the Brazilian society, following the example of the countries that have recycled their nuclear programmes.
The workers of the nuclear sector believe that there is still a lot to be done in terms of socially aimed activities, namely in the medical, industrial and environmental areas. It is therefore essential the establishment of a national policy of radioactive waste and recycle of the nuclear work stations.