Italy

Marica De Natale from Potenza in Italy presents opinions from representatives of policy, church and public life. You find quotes from the Berlusconi Party “Pdl”, from the opposition left party “Seantors” and from the Democratic Party “Pd”. Marica also quotes Pope Benedetto XVI and two other high priests of the Catholic Church. Finally we hear about the opinion of a medical expert and we get information about a governmental organization which promotes a positive attitude towards nuclear energy.


OPINION ON “NUCLEAR ENERGY” AND “ENERGY SUPPLY” IN ITALIAN PUBLIC

OPINION IN FAVOUR OF NUCLEAR ENERGY –politicians-

•    Silvio Berlusconi ( Italian Prime Minister, Pdl  Right Party).
“We must wake up from our sleep and adapt ourselves because the future is inside renewable resources and inside the nuclear. We will collaborate to build other nuclear power plants in France and in other countries , we will also provide to build new centrals in Italy, with France by our side which will  offer us its ‘know-how’. This will contribute to save several years and start building new centrals in a short time “
“..we were the protagonists in the nuclear field during the ’70 but,  because of  ideological fanaticism of a political side, we stopped the construction of two centrals which were quite complete . Now France, with big generosity, is opening us its collaboration. We have to remember that they have the possibility to produce the 80% of their needs thanks to the nuclear , a clean energy source with a security system which allows French people to pay the energy consumption half than how Italian people pay”

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