Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Italy parked his plans to return to nuclear energy

Rome. .- The Italian Government has decided to stop its plans to re-use of nuclear energy, after the March 23 approved a moratorium of one year before the crisis in Japan caused by the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami. According to reports today the Italian media, quoting parliamentary sources, the executive Silvio Berlusconi has decided to introduce an amendment to a decree law currently under debate in the Senate and contained the moratorium.

According to the text, "in order to acquire more scientific evidence is not applicable to the definition and tracking program performance, implementation and exercise in the country of production facilities for nuclear power." This amendment seeks to repeal all the standards for the construction of nuclear plants in Italy and to amend Article 5 of the decree containing the moratorium adopted by the Council of Ministers in late March, which included a break of 12 months in the procedures for locating and build such facilities.

The moratorium also envisaged that the deadline for defining nuclear strategy in Italy would be 24 months from March 23, the day passed in the Council of Ministers. Italy does not produce energy from nuclear in 1987, a year after the accident at Chernobyl (Ukraine, USSR), the Italians were expressed in a referendum against such plants in the country, and the four that existed were closed.

Exactly was expected before the end of June will be held in the country a referendum to rule on the decree establishing the return to nuclear energy production, which had already been approved in Parliament and the Executive had ordered the moratorium a year. Moments before the resignation of the government knew its nuclear production plans, the economy minister, Giulio Tremonti, was stationed at a hearing before the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament on renewable energy and finding alternative energy sources .

Spoke on this amendment today to the media party leader of the opposition Alliance for Italy (API), Francesco Rutelli, who said that the amendment made by the Executive back a proposal for its formation. "The government has decided to introduce an amendment that is identical to that already presented by Senators API (...) It puts an end to an illusion devoid of economic assumptions and guarantees of security, much more so in light of the disaster Fukushima, "Rutelli said, referring to Japan's atomic power plant damaged.

EFE mcs / cps / si

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