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September 02, 2021Nuclear must not be a taboo, especially now that "fourth generation technologies are emerging." To say this is the Minister of Ecological Transition
Roberto Cingolani
, who is above all a physicist.
"The world is full of radical chic environmentalists and it is full of ideological extremist environmentalists. They are worse than the climatic catastrophe towards which we are shot if we do not do something really sensible ", said Cingolani, speaking at the Italia Viva training school in Ponte di Legno, inviting a confrontation that goes" beyond ideology ".
On nuclear power, Cingolani specified, "fourth generation technologies are emerging, without enriched uranium and heavy water. consider this technology ". the minister said. Therefore, he concluded, "in the interest of our children it is forbidden to ideologize any type of technology. Let's keep to the numbers, when they are available we will make the decisions".
Clarification and resignation
"I plan a meeting for September 14 with the Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani, for a clarification on projects and policies for the environment and ecological transition, also in light of the recent declarations made at an event organized by Italy Viva". So the M5S leader,
Giuseppe Conte
, while calling for the resignation of Cingolani, "enemy of the environment and environmentalism,"
Maurizio Acerbo
, national secretary of Rifondazione Comunista - European Left.
Environmentalists: disrespect
"For Cingolani, environmentalists are radical chic and worse than the climate catastrophe, never has a minister of the Republic expressed himself with such recklessness and lack of respect for a community of people who fight like him in our country", declares the national co-spokesman of Europa Verde,
Angelo Bonelli
, who adds: "Cingolani insults the ecological world and has launched a campaign of fear against the ecological transition to stop modernization and defend the interests of the oil lobbies".
Fourth generation? There is no
Generation IV nuclear power "we have been talking about it for 25 years and it has never come to an end. It is therefore useless to spend public resources on a technology that who knows if
will arrive. We already have the technologies that allow us to face the climate crisis and they are renewables. We focus on those and we do not waste time talking about things that will never be done ", says
Stefano Ciafani
, president of Legambiente, who specifies:" our position has not changed even in the era of the climate crisis ", as
the 3 big problems of this technology: the dangerousness of the plants, the problem of nuclear waste and, finally, the exorbitant costs. "Today the technology of the IV generation does not exist and that of the advanced III generation, which the French are trying to build, are two infinite construction sites that cost almost 4 times the cost initially estimated ".
Research is one thing,other civil uses
For the deputy of FaciamoEco
Rossella Muroni
, the problem, if anything, "are the fossil sources and the model and those who insist on further aggravating the climate crisis by slowing down the ecological conversion" while "on nuclear power, research is one thing, another thing is to think about its civilian: the safe, clean nuclear power plants, as has repeatedly shown us the story, simply do not exist. It invests in the future: renewable, accumulations, efficiency, energy communities, innovations, smart grid '', concludes Muroni.
brave Minister
"I applaud Minister Cingolani's courage and the common sense truths he said about nuclear power. We are surprised by the controversy: the initiatives he spoke of are things that have been going on for some time in the international economy. about twenty of these plants are nearing completion, and which will become operational by 2026, in countries such as China, Russia and Argentina ", said
Umberto Minopoli
, president of the Italian Nuclear Association (Ain), a non-profit organization that collects centers of expertise on nuclear power in Italy.