Just give me the warm power of the sun,
Give me the steady flow of a water fall
Give me the spirit of living things as they return to clay
Just give me the restless power of the wind
Give me the comforting glow of a wood fire
But please take all of your atomic poison power away
("Power" - The Doobie Brothers , John Hall, James Taylor
No Nukes: The Muse Concerts For A Non-Nuclear Future)
Give me the steady flow of a water fall
Give me the spirit of living things as they return to clay
Just give me the restless power of the wind
Give me the comforting glow of a wood fire
But please take all of your atomic poison power away
("Power" - The Doobie Brothers , John Hall, James Taylor
No Nukes: The Muse Concerts For A Non-Nuclear Future)
Back in 1986 (more or less a century ago), the wave emotional (so they say) of the Chernobyl disaster, a young national secretary of Legambiente led an anti-nuclear demonstration which gathered 200,000 people in Rome. Shortly thereafter, on the same emotional wave (they always say so), in 1987, with over a million signatures in a few months, the referendum on nuclear power decreed the abandonment of the nuclear option in Italy.
Since then much water has passed over the cooling systems of nuclear power plants (foreign, of course). Technology has made the usual giant steps: nuclear power plants are now third generation, fourth generation and will soon be a day not far off, will become the fifth generation. The most advanced generations look the previous as we look at Cro Magnon, as a smartphone with Android might look at a Motorola Startac.
A rethinking is necessary, even radical. Clubs or associations flourished again for the revival of nuclear energy in Italy: the glorious Italian Nuclear Association, the Association of Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy Nuclear Scientists etc..
born even non-profit organizations aimed exclusively at the debate, as the Italian Nuclear Forum, chaired by the same young national secretary of Legambiente 1986. The vast movement of opinion is not is insensitive to the legislature: with a set of rules and well-publicized and deeply wanted a couple of declarations of a surprisingly non-judicial to the press by the President of the Council, the door is opened. We will also have our 13 nuclear power plants, it is only to determine where, not to determine why.
The usual left-or backward DiPietro or environmentalists, nostalgic for times gone by and wishing to keep the country under subjection energy, they got the go-ahead for referendum repeal of those provisions. What to do? Simple: if or not talk about it or, if you really must be spoken, who speaks at least one side.
In this light, the Italian Nuclear Forum, the organization more willing to debate, has bombed in recent months with a commercial chess in which, with patience, White contends nuclearists move after move to the unfounded and cowardly allegations of antinuclear Black. And 'know, beyond the symbolism inherent in the ethical dualism White / Black, and in the game of chess, with the advantage of the sudden, the white line of speculation should always win.
Unexpectedly, However, the message is blocked, and impartial jury that is misleading by the Advertising Self-Regulation, on multiple instances of proposals by associations and private citizens. It will therefore be necessary (and is certainly ready) for further action to develop the advertising debate among citizens. Also in the same direction, though.
The main problem that the forum is facing these days, however, comes from underground. The terrible earthquake and the Japanese nuclear disaster in progress, in fact, may induce some naive to reconsider its position on the subject, or at least to assume one. There is a grave risk of public opinion even in sleepy and ignorant, a new wave of emotion (yes, it still says so) anti-nuclear. Maybe not quite a tsunami : but, as you know chess, when you are ahead you should not concede anything to the opponent (if any).
In these days, so we see on television a long line of experts who explain why we should be okay. Two pearls
- White: Sky Tg24 12.03.2011: expert interviewed said that it is not clear what it is collapsed following the explosion in the reactor in Fukushima, probably a secondary building and unnecessary.
Black: From the pictures it is clear that to be the cage was destroyed reactor.
- White: The main topic presented by engineers, scientists and experts in earthquakes are much more numerous and dangerous gas pipeline explosions and fires caused by power stations and cables' s high voltage.
Black: In those cases, the radioactivity is not a problem: the fires are extinguished, explosions, explode, radioactivity remains.
The news continues to arrive from Japan, where real information and activities are neutral and designed to save lives, tell of new power plants (in Japan 57) at risk of explosion and contamination of larger parts evacuated because of the risk and fall-out radioactivity, tell us about 700,000 displaced persons and the risk of a new catastrophic earthquake in the next few hours. The move now is at the Nuclear Forum Italian: it's up to them to explain why all this is happening in Japan is irrelevant and unrepeatable.
Plutonium is forever.
Bad faith as well.
Ugo Chickens