Reuters - It may weigh on the pockets of Italians, the Italian turn to nuclear power. To underline the risk of the most expensive bills is a study, the accounts in hand, presented by President of the Foundation for Sustainable Development and former Environment Minister, Edo Ronchi, Montalto di Castro, in northern Lazio. "On the return to nuclear power does not add up," said Ronchi. The electricity generated by plants Nuclear costs 72.8 € aa Megawatt hour (MWh), 16% more - notes the survey - that produced by gas-fired plants, 61 € / MWh, and 21% higher than that from coal-fired plants, 57 , 5 € / Mwh. "Nuclear power will be significantly more expensive - Ronchi noted - and the competition does not hold either of the gas plants, or those with coal. On this subject - called - need more transparency. " The study compared eight recent studies published between 2008 and 2010 (OECD Nuclear Agency, Office of the Budget of the U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Commission, House of Lords, Electric Power Research Institute and Moody's), and presented in the periodical 'Journal Environment'. That nuclear is not a convenient source for the family budget "has shown the United Kingdom over the last 20 years," writes Professor energy policy 'Steve Thomas University of Greenwich in the journal Energy. But in Italy that this source is derived from the atom seems to be even more expensive, because our country was affected the re-start from scratch, as well as the need to import reactors "which does not produce."
addition to the features of our territory, and "strong local opposition," continues the ratio of the Foundation, should be considered as' time expected to be longer "to build the plants. The cost to comply with European directives sull'abbattimento of carbon dioxide (CO2), has finally seen Ronchi, "will not offset the economic gap between ten to twenty years there will be one of nuclear power, however, difficult to achieve in Italy, and other sources of energy.
And the Italian nuclear program, with its 100 terawatt hours (TWh) and 13,000 MW of new power plants by 2030, can not simply be added to 'which includes an existing development of renewable energy (about 100 TWh by 2020), of new gas-fired plants and coal under construction or advanced stage of approval (at least another 10,000 MW by 2020), because the economic crisis and saving policies and energy efficiency are setting up a future moderate growth in electricity consumption.
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