Italian nuclear power referendum, 1987
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The Italian nuclear power referendum of November 1987, rejected expansion of the country's nuclear power industry by the construction of new nuclear power plants.
Voters were actually polled about three issues:
- abolishing the statutes by which the Inter-ministeries Committee for the Economical Programming (CIPE) could decide about the locations for nuclear plants, when the Regions did not so within the time stipulated by Law 393;
- abolishing rewards for municipalities in whose territories nuclear or coal plants were to be built;
- abolishing the statutes allowing Enel to take part in international agreements to build and manage nuclear plants.
Some commenters find that the questions were actually too technical for non-experts and were used to obtain popular consent after Chernobyl disaster in 1986.[1] [2]
Subsequently, the Italian government decided in 1988 to phase out existing plants. This led to the termination of work on the near-complete Montalto di Castro nuclear power station, and the early closure of Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant and Caorso NPP, both of which closed in 1990. Italy's other two nuclear power plants had already closed prior to the decision, Alto Lazio NPP in 1982 and Latina NPP in December 1987.
[edit] References
- ^ Fornaciari, P. (1997). Il petrolio, l'atomo e il metano. Edizioni 21mo secolo.
- ^ Nebbia, Giancarlo (2007). Nuclare: il frutto proibito. Milan: Bompiani. ISBN 978-88-452-5954-8.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Referenda and Nuclear Power Plants - A Historical Overview at the Greenpeace archive.
- European Nuclear Outlook at the McGraw-Hill online energy resource site summarizes past referendums.
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