The main reason why in Italy (but not only) the worst crap proceed briskly is due to the fact that, except for a few enlightened ones who are usually impallinati just open their mouth, the herd has lost neurons and common sense. short memories, even very short
The popular referendum of 1987 "on the nuclear issue was" not a referendum on nuclear power. "But how, in '87 we had voted yes in a referendum on the abrogation of nuclear power in Italy ?»... Well, no. But on a comfort to know that exactly two of you remember the formation of Italy in the World Cup 82, is a matter of importance and priority, right? ... In any event, the referendum included the following three questions, abstruse and difficult to understand:
1) You want to be repealed the provision which allows the CIPE (Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning) to decide on the location of stations where local authorities do not decide within time?
2) You want to be repealed on compensation to municipalities hosting nuclear power plants or coal?
3) You want to be repealed the provision which allows ENEL to take part in international agreements for the construction and the operation of nuclear facilities abroad?
See? No referendum against nuclear power. You're against? Well. Collect signatures and propose it really a referendum, with the right question: why were there in 1987 and if you are convinced to have voted "YES" to the question "do you agree that there are nuclear power plants in Italy?" you are part of the flock above. Who tells you that you have done, consciously lies: do not rate them and more sputategli him (unless you have sympathy for the ballista that you are exploiting, however there who likes to be dressed as a Nazi whip your ass, so why wonder ...).
mushroom cloud, namely: central nuclear mushroomed. It 'good to know that there are over 400 in the world, including fully functional in the countries of which usually admire the civilization, such as Sweden, Finland and Switzerland. The French have 59, some of them is a musket shot from our borders (that is, we suffer the "risk" feared by many theoretical, with no benefits, since we pay them to buy the French atomic energy, but do not cross in their produrcela ). Then there are England, Germany, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, Japan ... the list is long. The current controversy in Germany there was once sold as "here, even the Germans have realized that must be closed." No: the Germans understood that the choice (motivated by the economic crisis) the government to keep some older plants still open (of about 30 existing) whose closure is necessary for reasons of age, is bullshit. The complete map of the world's centrlai is here.
At this count should be added the nuclear reactor "mobile", ie those placed on submarines and ships. About 130 are American, Russian ones were 250 thirty but remain in business, plus a few ice breakers and a few vessels with a surface, an exact count is impossible because we should know exactly what they have navies of countries like Iran and Israel. There are an absurd number of ballistic missiles, each with its beautiful ball of Uranium 235 (and its other Compagnucci) inside.
Alternatives? Sorry for the theorists of good thought, but are not as efficient. E 'childish intransigence pontificating on clean energy at home and then have three TVs and two computers 1.3 phones per person (90 million units in Italy over 60 million inhabitants). We like to think that something is beautiful, and then it works. It is rarely so in the real world. And believe me close my eyes and hold your breath until it becomes true, it produces the only result of cyanosis.
China Syndrome
It 's that old movie with Jack Lemmon as a nuclear accident caused by a destruction of the world throughout the globe. Good movie. In fact, the list of incidents at nuclear power plants is as long as Methuselah's beard (found here ).
Nuclear accidents "true", the one that has really happened to the reactor core or something, what have been the Three Mile Island (Harrisburg, USA) in 1979 and Chernobyl (Ukraine) in 1986. Two cases out of hundreds of reactors in over 50 years. If you say that the plane is half "statistically safe, then you can not reverence and a ride yourself, and say they are not" statistically safe "nuclear reactors. Statistics are statistics.
And all the other "accidents"? Read the linked list above: jumping valves, pipes breaking, causing sparks fire in the wrong places, workers' errors, or worse. Anything to do with nuclear power in itself. In 1975 in a Central American a fool decides to seek a current of air in a cabin using a candle, ignite and power cables then jump safety devices. In 1994 a Russian Central crisis because it is cut in the supply of electricity: they had not paid the bills (if you're thinking, "Shit, is a nuclear power, how can he remain without power, did not produce on its own?" There I remember that was exactly what they were doing at Chernobyl: The accident happened just during the 1986 a test of the safety procedures in case they stop the turbine, since the internal systems receive power from them in a loop crowds for the devices which were to raise the alarm if the process had stopped receiving power from same process). In 1999 in Japan in a storage site shall be paid to land two drums containing uranium and nitric acid: the substances are mixed and give off a reaction ... to mix the two chemicals the workers were using a can and a funnel (not because they were mad, it seems, was the procedure).
cases are more "funny", but basically this is usually of little things, tiny components, stuff from the supermarket. A sheath that does not hold. A valve that does not hold. A guy who drank a beer too many and does what he must. Even accidents on nuclear submarines, and there were a few from both American and Russian, were caused by Vavolo, fire, breakage, and not by the nuclear reaction. Small pieces of plastic and rubber three dollars that are likely to burst and make a mess.
The inevitable moral: Sergei, Beppe and Savior
If you thought that I held a rally for or against nuclear power, you are wrong again. There are no sources of energy or green fuels 100% . Who says you said bullshit. You hear about "clean coal", but it's a chasm, a contradiction in words like "dazzling darkness", "Inter nice" or "Berlusconi innocent." As always, I do not care whether this or that idea is more or less good: I'd like you to think and I proponeste an alternative to that with which you disagree, than to scream "no" and paraded in the procession. I live near the Susa Valley, I sick and tired of processions of any shape and color. If you have a better idea, Let's hear it. Otherwise we must also make do somehow, even if it means choosing the "lesser evil" among a number of options are not optimal. What I fear, personally, is not having a nuclear plant here, since I have six or seven in France about a hundred miles from home gardens. I fear the meringue .
meringue is said that white material which, when properly emulsified, you can mix the concrete construction and so lower the cost of construction sites (which is why that idiot of a neighbor's dog continues to lick the wall). I do not fear a nuclear Italian: I fear a nuclear Italian . Built by Beppe Pautasso meringue mixing cement and gypsum-mounted valves because they cost less. Managed by Salvatore Impastato inadvertently makes it drip sauce of Parmesan on the keypad of safeguards, or went to smoke a cigarette in a substation because it's cold outside. They are not jokes: stuff like that have happened in countries that should be more "careful" of ours. Even at Chernobyl in fact it all happened because Comrade Sergei did mess. I would be favorable if
impedissimo law to ourselves to build and operate. Let's build up by the Swedes, and assume a bit 'of Germans and Japanese to work with them. We perform all the checks to the Swiss. Will cost us a bit ', but still less than buying energy in bulk abroad. With the side effect of many run less risk of being blown up because of a meringue.