Nuclear, Tajani:“Italy interested in the fourth generation”.Bonelli attacks:“It doesn't exist”

The international summit on nuclear energy is in Brussels.Greenpeace hinders the arrival of the delegations

ROME - The return to nuclear power for energy independence and the fight against climate change in progress:word of the Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, who during a press point on the sidelines of the summit of the leaders of the People's Party which took place in Brussels before the start of the European Council, said:“Italy is looking to nuclear power both to advance energy independence and to fight against climate change, given its low environmental impact. It is right to look carefully at fourth generation nuclear power, we can demonstrate that we are also at the cutting edge from a research point of view“.The minister will also participate in a European summit on nuclear energy in Brussels.

The reaction of the national co-spokesperson of Green Europe and deputy of the Green and Left Alliance was immediate, Angelo Bonelli:“In Italy, for decades, a site has had to be identified in which to place the radioactive waste from old nuclear power plants but Forza Italia leader Tajani proposes fourth generation nuclear power: It doesn't exist, someone let me know! Today, theyet another pirouette by Von der Leyer who, after saying no to the regulation to reduce pesticides, said yes to public money to finance nuclear power.Nuclear is an energy that can only be produced with public subsidies, as happens in France where the EDF company was nationalized due to too many debts.In the Hinkley Point power plant, in England, the price has been frozen for the next few years at €120/MWh”.And he continues:“Today gas costs €27/MWh and renewables can cost even less.Forza Italia does not tell Italians how much its nuclear program will cost, nor where he intends to build these nuclear power plants.Say it before the European elections, if you have the courage.But we know well that it will not do so because a 30-40 GW third generation plus nuclear power plant today would cost over 400 billion euros and the citizens would pay while Only the energy companies would gain.The same ones that, in two years, with gas speculation, have made extra profits of 70 billion euros with the money of citizens who have paid double and tripled bills.Unfortunately, civil nuclear power brings with it investments in nuclear power for military use:madness”, concludes Bonelli.

Activists from Greenpeace France obstructed the arrival of several official delegations at the international summit on nuclear energy, hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Belgian Prime Minister.The summit, which brings together political leaders and nuclear industry executives, aims to attract public and private funding to pursue the goal, announced by a group of countries at COP28 in Dubai, of tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050.Greenpeace France estimates that to achieve this goal it would be necessary to build 70 reactors per year between 2040 and 2050.In reality, globally, between 2020 and 2023 just 21 reactors were connected to the electricity grid, while 24 were shut down.

As the delegations approached, activists scattered pink powder and lit smoke bombs of the same color, blocking the main access routes to the summit of the Brussels Expo.Another group of activists scaled the summit venue, displaying pink banners reading “NUCLEAR FAIRYTALE”.The aim of the peaceful protest is to highlight how nuclear power is just a dangerous distraction from real climate solutions.