Agostinho de Araújo Soares, 57, is a former employee at the Angra 1 nuclear power station. He says "I worked for over 10 years at Angra 1, changing the fuel and pipes. In the final years, I was already feeling very weak, with pain all over my body. When my hair started to fall out I was fired. Recently, I found out that my heart is swollen and I think that my bones have been affected, but I can't find a hospital to treat me ...no hospital in nearby Rio will want to treat me, because they don't treat people who suffer from radioactivity….I live 15 km away from the nuclear power station. Seems to be far, right? I tell you, however, that there won't be time to evacuate everyone if an accident occurs." If BNP Paribas’ financing goes ahead, a third reactor – Angra 3 – will be built using dangerously obsolete technology and burdening Brazil with an out-of-date nuclear reactor that fails to meet international safety standards.