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speed ahead without looking back - the neo-nuclear in Italy

(Below, an editorial on the nuclear issue in Italy, Sergio Rizzo, Corriere della Sera ):

would be wrong to underestimate what is happening at nuclear power plants in Japan, a country that has seen 65 years ago in the face the specter of nuclear holocaust. What Fukushima is one of the worst accidents on record. It does not attenuate severity that has not been caused from the human, as in Chernobyl, nor a failure, as at Three Mile Island, but by a devastating earthquake. A test even more terrible than this proud nation has faced in its history, always getting up.

There were people who, perhaps comforted by 10,000 kilometers away, said that central to our future pretty sure will not happen . The plant in Fukushima is old. And in Italy there are safe sites safe from earthquakes. All true. The fact remains that the public has a right to know what you are really risking. Without hesitation.

At the same time we believe that it can not be the understandable emotions aroused by the tragedy to determine the fundamental choices of energy policy. We have done and we were burned. The anti-nuclear referendum of 1987 passed by an overwhelming majority for the impression created by Chernobyl. No party except the Republican dared to challenge the unpopularity.

promised that by banning the atom would have chosen the way of clean energy: rather, we become the dirtiest country in Europe, more dependent on the sheiks and the most expensive bills. Until, after filling the pockets of the oil, it was realized that Germany produced 70 times more solar energy in Italy, remained painfully the pole in the field of renewables. And catch up we gave incentives too generous to those who produced them. Save then close the faucets overnight.

so that the same majority for five years the government was well guarded from opening practice (remember the Minister Marzano? "Here there are the conditions for reopening the discussion of nuclear power," he said in May 2001) 's discovery has priority in 2008. Just in time for the elections. Yet today, the Security Agency does not have a home and its components, has confessed to the president Umberto Veronesi, meet at the bar. How

wonder waiting in vain for twenty years a national energy plan that says how to feed factories, trains and refrigerators in the future? We are a country of contradictions, and nothing at all. Where every important decision will be taken on the basis of strategic designs. But the wave of emotion, controversy or special interests. Although these are decisions that will change the lives of our children and grandchildren.