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Nuclear plants in Italy – why not?

So well, after the recent disaster in Japan, I felt like an urge of putting down some notes on the nuclear choice. In the past, I already wrote (in italian) on Chernobyl disaster and the permanent (i.e. thousands of years worth) damage that occurred in that area, along with the looming threat of a new disaster should the containment structure there fail.

So yeah, while the events are unfolding in the far east, in Italy the debate over building new reactors in my country is still ongoing. The government is is planning to build new, expensive reactors in Italy, and the news from Japan are not putting down the politicians in their intents. Now, if you are not Italian you have to know that my country actually built four reactors in the eighties. Those were shut down after a ballot question following Chernobyl's 1986 nuclear disaster. One of them (Caorso plant) is actually built very close to my hometown (around ~ 20 Km).