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The nuclear renaissance is gathering pace around the world – and once again, Australia and New Zealand are being left behind. Two years ago, the world’s biggest climate beano quietly admitted that the ‘renewables’ scam was finally going bust. Even as Australia’s Climate Clown, Chris ‘Boofhead’ Bowen, kept blatherskiting the lie that ‘solar and wind are the cheapest forms of energy’, more than 20 countries from four continents launched the Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy.
The declaration ‘recognised’ that “nuclear energy is already the second-largest source of clean dispatchable baseload power, with benefits for energy security” and “analyses from the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and World Nuclear Association show that global installed nuclear energy capacity must triple by 2050 in order to reach global net-zero emissions by the same year”.
‘La-la-la-la-I-can’t-hear-you’, chanted Boofhead, to a horking, demented seal chorus of coloured-hair pansexual greenies. And that was just the New Zealanders.
Italy is the latest country to recognise that nuclear is our energy future.
Giorgia Meloni has long pitched nuclear energy as a cure for Italy’s wilting economy. Now her government is plotting how to actually resurrect the banned technology.
Almost 40 years after Italy shuttered its last nuclear reactor – and 15 years after a failed attempt to reverse that decision – the prime minister’s team is consulting experts and holding discussions on how to restart atomic energy production, according to people familiar with the planning.
Italian officials have traveled to Canada to explore technology designs, and spoken to French officials about their nuclear industry, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. The government has also internally discussed South Korean and US options, they added.
As well they might. Italy has some of the highest energy prices in Europe. And the second-highest penetration of solar. Fancy that. At the same time, Europe’s grid reliability is collapsing, including last year’s total blackout of Spain. Fancy that, too.
Like many countries, Italians have been scared witless by decades of anti-nuclear propaganda, despite the unassailable fact of nuclear having a better safety record than any other form of generation. But nothing sharpens the mind, as they say, like the hangman’s noose. First, Italy, like much of Europe, made itself suicidally dependent on imported Russian gas. Now, like much of the world, it’s facing an oil shock unseen since the 1970s.
And realising that ‘renewables’ just aren’t going to cut it.
Last year, Italy’s cabinet approved a new legal framework to bring back atomic energy, planting the seeds for Italy to produce a national strategic plan by 2027. The move marked the first concrete step toward lifting the country’s 1987 nuclear ban, which was almost reversed in 2011 before the Fukushima nuclear disaster sapped momentum.
Italian energy firms have also created a nuclear research and development company, Nuclitalia, to look at whether atomic power would be economically viable in the country.
I’m sorry… ‘Nuclitalia’…? Pffftttttt….
Alright, I’ll stop being childish, now. Still… Nuclitalia…
Costs still remain an issue. Nuclear projects take years and run into the billions.
Mostly because Chicken Little governments and mendacious activists keep strangling them in green tape.
In the meantime, Meloni will just have to keep tickling the Nuclitalia.
Oh, come on – I couldn’t let that one go.
