Italians gear up to vote on nuclear power

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ROME: Italians, today and tomorrow, are called to vote on four different subjects: nuclear power, privatisation of water and its service, and the “legitimate impediment” that will give complete immunity from penal laws to the Prime Minister and all Ministers ensuring Silvio Berlusconi from getting tried for several charges.

Di Pietro leader of Italia dei Valori party promoter of the referendum said “We were against nuclear power before Fukushima accident happened. Our actions are not just driven by an emotional feeling: there is deep rationality behind it. Nuclear power is not a solution for Italy’s energetic problems. Nuclear power has unsustainable costs and creates new energetic dependence like the one from uranium. Also the countries around us are banning nuclear power. We want to invest in renewable energies that are safer and that won’t weight on our energetic bills as nuclear power is already doing.”

And checking the present nuclear costs that Italians are paying, nuclear power is not convincing us not even economically speaking. Even if Italy had a very brief nuclear history, the country is still paying for it. 4 old nuclear plants to be dismissed with the related costs, 77 thousand cubic metres of radioactive waste to get rid of, ¤300m energy bill per year paid by Italians through taxes under the voice “system charges”.

The Department of Energy in the United States, said that nuclear power is the most expensive solution. Especially if you compare it to power generated by wind farms. Already in 2009 worldwide eolic plants have produced more electric power than the one produced by nuclear plants installed in the last 15 years.

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