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Italy delaying nuclear power plants

Italy won’t unveil nuke sites until 2011 Sydney Morning Herald January 21, 2010 – “………………The centre-left governments of Naples’ Campania region and that of Apulia, also in the south, have already said they would not host nuclear plants on their territory.Italy’s Greens sparked a fierce political debate in December when they released a list of sites they said the government was considering, and the issue is expected to colour regional elections in late March……………..

Nuclear power was banned in Italy after a referendum held in 1987, the year after the reactor accident at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, sent highly radioactive fallout over large areas of Europe.

The country’s four nuclear plants operating at the time were shut down.

The centre-right government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced shortly after taking office in May 2008 that it would begin building nuclear power stations to solve the country’s dependence on foreign oil and gas supplies.

January 21, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Italy, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin