Italy to Start Work on New Nuclear Power Site by 2013

[Dogmudgeon]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=aS7JPR.Ht6C4">Italy to Start Work on New Nuclear Power Site by 2013

July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Italy will start work on its first new nuclear plant by 2013 after the Senate today approved a return to generation after a 22-year ban, Industry Minister Claudio Scajola said.

The government wants to broaden its mix of energy sources, including coal and renewables, Scajola said at a conference in Rome today. Nuclear power may eventually account for 25 percent of national energy production, he added.

“A majority of Italians understand that in order to have lower energy costs, we need nuclear power,” Scajola said. “A number of local authorities have told me they’re available to have sites on their territory.”

Italy, which has the highest electricity prices in the European Union, has been looking for ways to cut power costs and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Italians voted to shutter the country’s nuclear plants in a 1987 referendum following the Chernobyl accident in the former Soviet Union.

The decision to return to nuclear generation is a “historical choice,” Enel SpA Chief Executive Officer Fulvio Conti said in an e-mailed statement today. Enel has “rebuilt” its expertise through its role in nuclear generation outside Italy, Conti said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=aS7JPR.Ht6C4">There's more, but not much more ...

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[NNadir]

1. You mean they got tired of burning Greek coal in the oldest producing geothermal

country in the world?

http://geothermal.marin.org/geopresentation/sld050.htm

Every single nuclear plant shut in Italy by the innumerate nonsense of the anti-nuke dogma cults was replaced by imported coal from Greek plants.

ENEL has been active in nuclear science abroad however, chiefly in Slovenia.

They tried to buy rights to new EDF plants but were denied.

But this brings up a point. If Italy has been producing geothermal electricity since the early 20th century, how come they replaced the nuclear plants that they shut - they were the only official "phase out country" to actually phase out nuclear power - with dangerous fossil fuel plants.

Where were all the innumerates who obsessively criticize nuclear power, the whiny little bourgeois brats, who shed even a single tear or remark over the Greek and Italian dead from dangerous fossil fuel dumping?

I'll tell you where...with their heads up their illiterate innumerate asses.

[Terry in Austin]

2. Nukes or nothing, eh?

Simple -- we'll just trade one kind of dogma for another, apparently.