(Lorenzo Galeazzi and Federico Mello - The Fact Daily)
Hard Attack of the geologist to the reactions of the government majority is under threat from Japan Atomic destroyed by the earthquake
"I am irresponsible. Talk less and study more. " Mario Tozzi , maître à penser Italian environmentalism and television talking head, does not mince words in commenting on the reactions of our house to the Japanese earthquake and the threat of nuclear disaster. The statements of various Fabrizio Cicchitto and Pier Ferdinando Casini, Tozzi are not to your liking. It 's a river in flood: "It is to be appalled. These politicians are pretending to be of theoretical nuclear physics. Do not even have the decency to use caution in situations like this should be a must. "
Tozzi then not talk to the editorial of today's Messenger signed by Oscar Giannino . An article that has climbed in the dark of the statements which were then blatantly denied. The reporter wrote that what happened in Japan was the "litmus test" of security of energy produced from the atom. "What a miserable figure to Giannino - attacks Tozzi - But one thing is served: to unmask the Italian habit to get into the chair and talk about things that do not know. "
Faced with the threat of a nuclear disaster, the watchword of our local nuclear lobby is an understatement. "Even the nightmare that is living Japan at this time with the damage of a reactor - continues the journalist - is in Italy declined to a mere instrument of political propaganda and ideological. They defend the atom only because they can not go back. "
According to the host of "Gaia, the living planet" (which returns to air on Rai Tre from 31 March) lies more macroscopic pro-atom lobby are two: the security and affordability this source of energy. That tragedy is the Japanese dramatically revealing.
"Nuclear power plants in Japan - says Tozzi - were built to withstand an earthquake of 8.5 degrees of Richter scale . Then what happened? E 'come an earthquake of 8.9 and facilities could not keep. " The Italian plants will be built to withstand the shock of approximately 7.1 degrees, but, as claimed by Tozzi, "who assures us that one day an earthquake will more powerful? ". No, indeed. Because earthquakes are phenomena that can not be foreseen. In addition, the Japanese disaster occurred in the country's most technologically advanced in the world. In Tokyo is rooted in fact a serious risk culture that is the result of a deep understanding of these phenomena. "With what face tolla various Cicchitto we are selling the idea that in Italy, in the event of an earthquake, things might go better in Japan? The earthquake of ' Aquila if it had happened in Japan would not have even caused the fall of a ledge. We caused 300 dead. Who can believe the ravings of the Italian nuclear safety? "Asks sarcastically Tozzi. It 's true that the nuclear accident is rare, but it is equally true that it is a thousand times more dangerous. And the Japanese case, according to Tozzi, is from the manual: "If you break the power plant's cooling system becomes exactly like a huge atomic bomb. Perhaps this is the litmus test mentioned by Giannino.
And then there is the question of the alleged cost of energy produced from the atom. "The various political and alleged experts - argued Tozzi - you fill your mouth saying that the kilowatt-hour produced from the atom is cheaper than that produced by other sources. But it is not true. We know how much is really only when we inactivated the first kilogram of radioactive waste produced by power plants. And that is, between 30 thousand years. " According to the journalist, the lobby that wants the return of its nuclear propaganda value for money without considering externality, namely the additional costs that make up the price. Ranging from the disposal of waste (a problem that no country in the world has yet to resolve definitively) the social costs and political challenges of an accident. "It is money that the nuclear count - he says Tozzi - because they are costs that will fall on citizens and future generations."
On June 12, is planning a referendum that, among other things, calls for the repeal of the return of Italy to the atom. The reference to what happened at Chernobyl in 1987, large anti-nuclear protests to the referendum that sanctioned the abandonment of nuclear energy is a must. Mario Tozzi But the comparison is not convincing: "We 25 years of numbness of conscience. Today we have people like Chicco Testa and Umberto Veronesi experts who make false and misleading ads that the public astray. " In short, the link between the incident that shook the conscience and the vote of the people that worked in 1987, today could fail. But on June 12 did not vote just to say no to the atom. Citizens are also called to speak out against the privatization of water resources and the law on such failure. Topics that next to no atom could convince people to go to the polls. And allow the referendum to back a quorum.
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