"I'm taking the guys from Azione to visit these places that, despite the time, are still cutting edge. Like the Garigliano power plant, or the one in Caorso." This is what Azione leader Carlo Calenda told Corriere della Sera, on a tour of former nuclear power plants . "We have submitted a popular initiative bill to the Senate : 75,000 signatures for nuclear power," he added. " If the government is serious, they just have to vote for it as it is and in six months we will bring nuclear power back to Italy . According to the polls, more than half the population is in favor ."
Compared to the position of the Green Bonelli, according to which the bills would triple, "it is a clear idiocy - Calenda cuts short -. Just look at the cost of nuclear energy in France and Spain, and it is exactly half of the Italian one. And emissions: in 2024 we emitted ten times more than France. The waste produced in its entire life by the Garigliano plant is inside a cube of one meter and twenty. And Garigliano is a first generation plant. Today we are at the third. As we speak, sixty third generation nuclear plants are under construction in the world".
There is a lot of resistance to "an antiquated ideology. But there is also a big scandal that no one talks about: the shocking profits of companies that deal with renewables: in 2024 it was around 50% . To understand: Ferrari made 30%. Many plants receive incentives that already remunerate the investment and in addition they can sell energy on the stock exchange, at a price that almost always depends on gas", he says.
"We need immediate action, companies are closing, we risk dozens of relocations," he says again. To stem the drift, two actions are needed: "We need to decouple the price of renewables from that of gas, replacing the stock market price with a 'fair price'", then "the restructuring of the 5.0 transition. It didn't work: out of 6.3 billion, they spent 300 million. We say to bring it back to that of Industry 4.0. These are emergency measures", concludes Calenda.
(Online Union)
