May 23, 2008

ROME — Italy announced Thursday that within five years it planned to resume building nuclear energy plants,
two decades after a public referendum resoundingly banned nuclear power and deactivated all its reactors.

To build nuclear plants, Italy would almost certainly have to improve its system of dealing with nuclear waste.
The plants that were shut down years ago still store 235 tons of nuclear fuel.

I think that they should look into a lot of safer / cleaner energy sources that are not fully used in Italy ...but who am I to say something ...

Thanks for the article, Villa! I hope they have a better plan in place than they did with their garbage!(Um, by the way, just how does one 'deal' with nuclear waste?)

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"Tremate, tremate, le streghe sono tornate!" - Italian feminist slogan

We live in Nevada, a state which is not known for crowded conditions - except, perhaps, at the slot machines. The US government has been trying for more than 20 years to develop a nuclear waste repository in Nevada to accept nuclear waste from all of the US.

It hasn't happened and it may not. No one wants a nuclear waste repository in their back yard. So, if nuclear energy, which has many advantages, is ever going to fly then the disposal of the nuclear waste has to be solved. It would, I humbly submit, be prudent to solve that problem before, rather than after, more plants are built.

As Stephanie points out, the model established in Napoli seems to have some weaknesses... ;-)