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Protest against nuclear power plant near Venice

The country has chosen to adopt AREVA’s infamous EPR reactor design which is not yet operational anywhere in the world. The prototypes currently being built in Finland and France are already notorious for their safety concerns, massive cost overruns and schedule delays.

Veneto says NO! to Berlusconi´s nuclear plans Greenpeace by jmckeati – July 28, 2010 This morning 20 GP activists from Italy and Austria made a 2000 square-metre anti-nuclear-sign at the Lido di Venezia in a spectacular protest against the planned nuclear ‘renaissance’ in Italy.

Italy is planning the construction of four new nuclear power plants. The plans include a new nuclear power plant at the south of Venice, only 160 kilometres from the Austrian border and next to the most popular Italian tourist beaches. As part of the protest Greenpeace handed over a petition to the Venetian governor Luca Zaia asking him to declare the Veneto region a Nuclear Free zone…

..The country has chosen to adopt AREVA’s infamous EPR reactor design which is not yet operational anywhere in the world. The prototypes currently being built in
Finland and France are already notorious for their safety concerns, massive cost overruns and schedule delays. It’s not even that Italy needs nuclear energy, on the contrary. Energy efficiency and renewable energy programmes will deliver three times more energy by 2020 than these nuclear plans. That’s a renaissance of which Italy could be proud.

Veneto says NO! to Berlusconi´s nuclear plans | Greenpeace International

July 29, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Italy, opposition to nuclear | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, reactors