NUCLEAR. 4 ideas for a green jackal
4 ideas on Nuclear:
a jackal are green, but the accounts I can do them.
The tragic reality forces us to discuss nuclear power, a few months after the referendum.
The Italian government wants to "keep going", but the populace we want to see clearly.
1) Nuclear power plants provide electricity. In Italy we do not need, in recent years the installed capacity has increased while demand has fallen: the question is of about 60 GW (gigawatts). The installed power in Italy in early 2010 amounted to 94 GW. So there is no real need for new electricity (for heating and transport we use oil or gas).
2) It is said that nuclear power plants we will ensure energy independence. False. The power plants use uranium as fuel. The major uranium mines in Australia and Africa are now under Chinese control, or Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, now under Russian control. So nuclear power is a source that creates dependence on China or Russia.
3) How much does the energy produced by power plants? Too. The cost of kWh (kilowatt hours) of nuclear power is greater than any other source (the costs of official cents dollar are: nuclear 10.2-wind: 9.9 - Coal: 9.8 - Gas: 8.2), this is because in addition to investments to build a power plant, one must also calculate the cost of smantellameto that may even raddoppiare.4) The Italian Government has provided four new nuclear plants at a cost of 30 billion lire. These 4 plants, if all goes well, would come into operation between 15-20 years, and would produce 5% of the country. And 'quite clear disproportion between the> and investment results. 5% is what you can get from now with a serious policy of energy saving and efficiency of existing plants.
4 takes these figures to demonstrate that nuclear power in Italy does not make sense and serves only to ensure a small business lobby. To this we add that the government is proposing nuclear power without having made the country a serious energy plan (requirements, weather, fuel consumption, costs, etc.). And that the problem of radioactive waste has not yet been risolto.La conclusion is simple, and it is the same many years ago: Nuclear energy? No, thanks.
Mao Valpiana
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