  The Neutrinos Angra Experiment is a water-based Cherenkov detector located in
the Angra dos Reis nuclear power plant. The experiment has completed a major
step by finishing the commissioning of the detector and the data acquisition
system at the experimental site. The experiment was designed to detect the
electron antineutrinos produced by the nuclear reactor with the main purpose to
demonstrate the feasibility of monitoring the reactor activity using an
antineutrino detector. This effort is within the context of the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) program to identify potential and novel
technologies that can be applied for non-proliferation safeguards. Challenges,
such as operating at the surface, therefore with huge noise rates, and the need
to build very sensitive but small-scale detectors, make the Angra experiment an
excellent platform for developing the application itself, as well as acquiring
expertise in new technologies and analysis methods. In this report, we describe
the main detector features and the electronics chain (front-end and data
acquisition). We also report preliminary physics results obtained from the
commissioning phase data. Finally, we address conclusions regarding the future
perspectives to keep this program active, due to its importance in the
insertion of Latin-American scientists and engineers in a world-scale cutting
edge scientific program.
