Green Options » atomic power http://greenoptions.com/tag/atomic-power Posts tagged 'atomic power' Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:11:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Italy’s Berlusconi Vows a Return to Nuclear http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/21/italys-berlusconi-vows-a-return-to-nuclear/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/21/italys-berlusconi-vows-a-return-to-nuclear/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:11:16 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/21/italys-berlusconi-vows-a-return-to-nuclear/ Italian energy plan to also include renewables

silvio berlusconi announces nuclear and renewable energy plan for italyItaly’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced the introduction of “a national energy plan” on Saturday, including a return to nuclear power.

A month after the conservatives and their embattled leader returned to power back in April, the Italian government said it would begin building nuclear power stations to solve the country’s dependence on foreign oil and gas supplies.

“A new national energy plan will be presented in spring, which will be based on three points: diversification of supplies, the start of nuclear energy production and development of renewable and alternative energy,” Berlusconi said at the opening ceremony of a new liquefied natural gas terminal.

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The decision to return to nuclear would reverse a 20-year ban on nuclear power stemming from a 1987 referendum passed in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, a year earlier. The country’s four nuclear plants operating at the time were shut down, and have not produced any power since.

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