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| Stellungnahme der Amici della Terra: A big nuclear hoax from Italy | ||||||
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Hier der Original-Artikel aus der Basilikata, Süditalien
Online-Petition gegen das Dekret von GreenPlanet.net
The Italian Government has adopted a decree to localise a permanent national disposal site for nuclear waste in a salt mine in Southern Italy (Scanzano in Puglia). This decision has been pending for many years. It has to be reminded that Italy has no nuclear plants anymore, according to a decision of Government and Parliament following a referendum in the years 1986/87.
At the time of the decision, there were in Italy only a couple of prototypes, a few experimental centres and only one nuclear power plant (Caorso), which was operational for a very short time. From then on, the materials produced before, plus the nuclear waste originating still from hospitals and the such, although in small quantities, are temporarily stored near their production sites and constitute a problem in terms of safety and environment protection. Furthermore, a certain amount of nuclear waste has been sent to Sellafield in the UK for reprocessing, but could not come back to Italy, due to the lack of an appropriate permanent disposal site. All this, of course, has caused repeated protests from British environmentalists, who justly demand that Italy takes back its shit).
Now, the totally proper decision to try and put a definitive end to the short-lived Italian nuclear phase is igniting a revolt, not only popular, but shared by local governments of the concerned area, and strong protests are heard from political parties, even from those in the majority..
So, in an upside down world, the only environmentally correct solution is taken for the problem, seen that no other alternative is morally or ecologically acceptable. Leave the waste lying around Italy in unsafe conditions? Ship it abroad? (The President of a big and well known environmental organisation incredibly proposed Ukraine.....).
It is understandable the citizens of Scanzano ask "why here?" However, it is not acceptable that media label their protest as an ecological one. To this effect, it is good to remind that a few miles from Scanzano there is Rotondella, the site of an old experimental nuclear centre where are "temporarily" stored several tons of highly active nuclear waste, a fact hat has never stirred any protest....
Amici della Terra - the first organisation to move against nuclear power in Italy in the '70s and still active on issues like the campaign on the Euratom Treaty - have taken a clear stand on this issue, maintaining that to identify and build a permanent disposal site for nuclear waste is necessary and urgent, and the decision on Scanzano is technically appropriate, as there are not many other options available, particularly in a densely populated and morphologically fragile country like Italy.
In addition, they reminded the Italian government that just only hinting to an (im)possible nuclear come back for Italy would make it impossible to find any rational solution to the nuclear waste problem. At the end of the day, the only politically correct way to manage this situation is, once identified the best technical solution, to carry out an open and transparent debate with the concerned parties and to conduct a negotiate aiming at fully compensating the population living in the site vicinity.
In affirming the above, Amici della Terra found themselves alone, criticised also by other environmental NGOs. Albeit this is not pleasant, particularly at the local level, Amici della Terra believe that, in an upside down world, where even the worst hoaxes get credit, it is good that at least one organisation keeps the upright position and is not afraid to look reality in the face.
Laura Radiconcini, Amici della Terra (FoE Italy)
Amici della Terra (FoE Italy)
Via Torre Argentina 18
I-00186 Roma
Tel 39 06 6868289
Fax 68308610
amiterra@amicidellaterra.it
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