autumn of 22 years ago, on 8 and 9 November 1987 Italians said no to nuclear power as a form of energy supply.
This is the sense of the three questions of the referendum submitted to the voters (and percentages):
80.6% '19.4% NO
79.7% '20.3% NO
With the approval of the bill Security of the Senate two days ago, Italy is officially back, after 22 years with nuclear power. The numbers were overwhelming: 154 votes in favor, one opposed, one abstention. Compact the center- who found also the support of the UDC. Italy of Values \u200b\u200band the Democratic Party have left the classroom after announcing their "no." Well, so to speak. A nice return to the past, even in this field, it was just what we wanted. Now the government has six months to fill the contents of the delegation, rather large and smoky, which is "earned" by the parliament. First, it must indicate the sites suitable for new power plants, "plant the flags' on Italy map. a puzzle not easily solved. From the time, just six months. It means that Berlusconi will have to announce by mid- January who will be the "lucky" that they catch a new power plant in their territory. Less than two months after the regional elections, could be a boomerang for the Knight, who would pay in terms of electoral choice. The opposition to nuclear power, after schiacciantissima victory for the No in the referendum of 1987, also due to the wave of emotional tragedy of Chernobyl, is still alive in our country. Thousands of municipalities "nuclear free" on the Italian territory. It means that within their borders, in addition to not building sites, can not even passing vehicles carrying waste. Not having this term "legal dignity 'is easy to imagine that, faced with a" best interests " (Read business), the executive if they "fuck" cheerfully. But "rowing against" the choice of the executive is, above all, the physical and geological conformation of our country.
are very few suitable sites to build a nuclear plant. A large part of the Italian territory is not suitable for seismic areas. Second limit: a central need of substantial quantities of water. The flow of our rivers, except a few, is not enough. So the best place should be near or next to the sea. And a port, and also great, because part of the machinery must be imported via sea. Such places, in Italy, there are very few and, although the government maintains the "state secret" sites already identified likely, just a simple cross-check the characteristics required for alerting the people of the areas concerned and the just cause, DISCOUNT protests of citizens.
From the website Sole24ORE . Frederick Rendina (07/11/2009):
Eye to sites where to place the new Italian nuclear power stations. With all the problems exist. Amplified, as many feared, the reverse of only two regional governments that had expressed willingness to promote the renaissance of the atom Italian electricity. Both Giancarlo Galan ( Veneto) and Raffaele Lombardo ( Sicily) confirm the new and more conservative strategic line. Veneto will talk about only after a detailed history of scientific-technical and Sicily would appeal in any case to a popular referendum. In other words: a very long time in the two regions as easily talk about it.
But here is the emergence of a barrier even harder for the outcome of the nuclear renaissance promised by the Law "development" launched the other day: the management of waste already produced by our nuclear activities. Also this theme should be clear - it has just passed the enabling act - during the six months during which the government will have to define criteria for building power plants in the area and possibly the first to place flags on the map.
slag really embarrassing. Also because we have some far from negligible proportions: those inherited nuclear suspended the activity after the referendum of 1987, as the result of the dismantling of our nuclear power stations of four old Trino, Caorso, Latina and Garigliano and those (that alone would not would be a big problem) produced by regular medical and scientific activities in the country.
Good. Rather badly. For Italy, as stranoto, can not even manage the waste that still has. We should think first Sogin, created in 1999 and paralyzed for years by a double problem, indoors and outdoors. What concerned the internal management, considered unfortunate for all the official and unofficial observers: analysts, the parliamentary committees, the Court of Auditors, the Energy Authority.
The machine is inefficient, patronage and mangiasoldi Sogin of the above, over the years, everything. To summarize: until 2006, Sogin has spent 38% of its budget management to carry only 6% of its planned activities and taxes. Small, but far from sufficient justification to the country, intended as a political class that the country administering it, could not solve the problem, or establishing criteria for technical and logistical store, treat and possibly "turn off" the nuclear waste .
And here Italy, a country that has renounced the nuclear 22 years ago and would like to start using it, finds himself today with the beauty of
- 55 000 cubic meters of radioactive waste produced by its old plants, in addition
- 25 thousand cubic meters of debris also dangerous products from their dismantling. There are
- 500 tonnes per year of waste produced by medical and scientific. Not to mention
- few tonnes of the most dangerous waste, park (a price) in France and England for a partial reprocessing but with a commitment to recover within ten years.
embarrassing heritage, old and new. To handle a little 'better than we tried times, with blatant missteps, such as identification, was 2003, the geological site of Scanzano Ionic: Instead of burying for ever the waste, the project was quickly buried by the criticism of many experts and not by popular acclaim. Now we will try again - says the government - with one or more sites of the surface. Meanwhile, our waste floating in the well and better in sites where they were produced when we Nuclear power plants in the old and in research centers and storage associated with them.
Meanwhile, since 2007, the rickety car Sogin suddenly took place, under the guidance of former executives of Massimo Romano, despite the lack of a real route on final management of waste. The relationship between spending and activity was reversed last year ended with decommissioning activities for € 46.6 million compared with operating costs reduced to 31.8 million. Too bad the
Sogin has just now doomed. The draft bill "development" it decrees the smebramento and thus disappeared, to give the cream of the business to a new public-private in the name of the nuclear renaissance should put together his best nuclear operators with businesses headed Italian, we say by Ansaldo Energia. If this is indeed the best solution is open to debate. She is the fact that the dismantling of that he had finally begun to work is another unknown factor in already difficult challenge.
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