energia nucleare

The Government recently published the National Map of Eligible Areas, where the fifty-one sites deemed suitable to host are shown nuclear waste storage that every EU state should have.For the moment, the areas identified are limited to just six regions:Basilicata, Puglia, Lazio, Piedmont, Sardinia and Sicily.However, the list of sites could soon be enriched thanks to a debated new possibility introduced by the executive for local authorities and military structures.These will in fact be able to self-nominate to host the atomic waste even if, in fact, they will be subjected to a suitability assessment only later.Lazio, with 21 sites identified all in the Viterbo area, is the region with the largest number of suitable areas, followed by Basilicata, Piedmont, Sardinia, Puglia and Sicily. Of all the sites, the Government will have to choose only one.However, the selection will be more complicated than expected.In fact, a few days after the publication of the Charter, many of the municipal...

The billionaire nuclear deals of the "philanthrocapitalist" Bill Gates have landed at the Conference of the Parties on climate change, COP 28, where an agreement was signed declaration to triple nuclear energy by 2050 (compared to 2020), so as to achieve the objectives of zero net emissions.The tycoon has long been involved in design of new nuclear reactors for the production of clean energy, through a company he founded in 2008, Terra Power, whose first power plant was located in Kemmerer, a town in Wyoming with less than 3 thousand inhabitants.The billionaire entrepreneur's goal is to "save the planet" from global warming by promoting the energy transition through new sources of clean energy.With this goal, the founder of Microsoft did not hesitate to influence government policies promoting its vision of the energy future at COP 28.The declaration to increase nuclear energy was signed, in fact, by 22 countries, including the USA, Great Britain and France, under ex...

Between 350 and 450 billion by 2050 and launch in the next few months an alliance with the world of the nuclear industry on new small-sized reactors, which are expected to become operational in Europe “within ten years at the latest”.This was said by the European Commissioner for Energy, Kadri Simson, who thus opened the 16th European Nuclear Energy Forum (ENEF) which was held in Slovakia on Tuesday 7 November.The set objective is to take stock of the growing interest in nuclear technologies in some EU countries and what, according to some, they could have in achieving climate neutrality by the middle of the century.However, the announcement sparked a reaction from scientists, NGOs and environmental associations, who expressed doubts and perplexities in a press release on the website of the European Environmental Bureau, the largest European network of environmental citizen organisations. During his intervention, the commissioner Kadri Simson stated:«To achieve climat...