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Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

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reddalo · 1790188063 · focus · HN ↗
I'm Italian and I'm super happy with this.
The referendum that made nuclear energy illegal in Italy was held right after the accident of Chernobyl; people voted with their gut, not with their mind.
Curiously enough, some Italian town signs still have a small sub-sign reading "denuclearized municipality" (example: <a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/1421/712461235_e46a2c7db5_z.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://live.staticflickr.com/1421/712461235_e46a2c7db5_z.jp... )
1. fweimer · 1790196666 · focus · HN ↗
  Where in Italy would you put reactors?
  <a href="https://maps.eu-risk.eucentre.it/map/european-seismic-risk-index-viewer/#7/42.743/13.574" rel="nofollow">https://maps.eu-risk.eucentre.it/map/european-seismic-risk-i...
  Sardinia?
  1. someonebaggy · 1790198702 · focus · HN ↗
    Anywhere on this map. And you'd call it earthquake-proof, and when the next earthquake causes Fukushima 2, you just blame the contractors or something.
  2. scythe · 1790204372 · focus · HN ↗
    I think that there are plenty of blue areas on that map
  3. wraptile · 1790226873 · focus · HN ↗
    wow, seems like Italy and Turkey are few places where you _would not_ want to go back to nuclear. Wild. I guess the old geezers approving this wouldn't even live to see the first meltdown anyway.
  4. etiennebausson · 1790231371 · focus · HN ↗
    That doesn't look good, and that's before you filter by proximity to a large river (that doesn't run dry in summer).
    I would say near Pisa, on the Arno River.
  5. vconnor · 1790234090 · focus · HN ↗
    Scroll up. There was one in Trino, Piedmont, which I imagine will be among the first sites to be considered.
    Judging from the map, Piedmont, Liguria, Trentino, Tuscany and Basilicata have good sites.
  6. rich_sasha · 1790238989 · focus · HN ↗
    For a point of comparison, I understand the Fukushima plant survived the mag 9 earthquake just fine - but got damaged by the ensuing tsunami. Specifically, the water flooded the diesel generators for emergency cooling - and it went downhill from there.
    Is the Italian coastline at high risk of tsunamis as well?
  7. preisschild · 1790244314 · focus · HN ↗
    Just like with skyscrapers in Taiwan, we can and have built earthquake-resistant nuclear power plants before. Fukushima only failed due to the tsunami water shorting transmission lines and the emergency generators. It withstood the earthquake itself fine.

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