France, morning
I am not a big fan of Berlusconi and I am not a big fan of Sarkozy. It happens that being Italian and living in France, I am interested in anything concerning these two countries. It also happens that Berlusconi and Sarkozy signed yesterday an agreement about the nuclear power plants.
My opinion? they are completely out of time. France has always been a big fan of nuclear power. But the nuclear power was the resource to invest on at the end of the 70', beginning of the 80', not now. Every country is investing on alternative energy resources, which I agree will not be able alone to replace the oil power, while Italy and France decided to invest on nuclear power plants.
As a scientist I think it is a mistake to invest in the nuclear now. First nuclear power plants produce a lot of energy, right but they are not without problem. Uraniun is not an infinite resource, as we are seen that oil is too. Radioactive products are difficult to remove from the environment and if the solution is to bury them underground or in the sea, this doesn't mean that we can forget about them. They are there and the time of decay of these radioactive substances is really long. Third, nuclear power plants consume a lot of the energy they produce too, so that the balance is not that positive as thought. Fourth, I am not sure who would like to live next to a nuclear power plant.
In a world that needs to re-discover a better way of living to no destroy all our resources, Italy and France are investing on nuclear. In Holland there are people paid to find and study alternative energy resources and I am sure that there are well paid jobs everywhere in this field, which I consider to be the field of the future. Italy and France need to go on the other way around. Not only they cut the funding to scientific research, so that anyone working in the Universities or research institutes in these two countries is wondering if next year they will still have a job, but also decide to invest on something which according to me is out of time.
Berlusconi even declared that we will have a "massive" amount of nuclear power plants in Italy....I wonder if he will put one of them next to his villa...at least that would be fair!
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Si effettivamente il nucleare per quanto utile al giorno d'oggi potrebbe essere una risorsa superata, noi arriviamo sempre con l'ultimo treno.
appunto, in Italia invece di portarci avanti o al piano degli altri paesi piu' all'avanguardia, ci divertiamo a fare sempre il fanalino di coda...il perche' non l'ho ben capito ancora...
I agree with you. It seems to late for this. Plus, where will they put all the decay?
well, as I wrote the place where they normally the radioactive substance get disposed is underground or in the sea.....
Basically nuclear power works well if only a few countries are producing it. The global uranium supply is quite small. I guess it could work for Italy if no other country decides to do it as well. But then Italy might find itself way behind the renewable energy curve when it runs out of uranium. By that time, the French will be wondering why they have been left so far behind.
~Scott
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