Italian nuclear power referendum, 1987
- Italian nuclear power referendum, 1987
The Italian nuclear power referendum of November 1987 rejected expansion of the country's nuclear power industry by construction of new nuclear power plants. Voters were polled on three issues:
* abolishing the statutes by which the Inter-ministries 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. [cite book
last = Fornaciari
first = P.
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = Il petrolio, l'atomo e il metano
publisher = Edizioni 21mo secolo
date = 1997
isbn = ] [cite book
last = Nebbia
first = Giancarlo
authorlink =
title = Nuclare: il frutto proibito
publisher = Bompiani
date = 2007
location = Milan
isbn = 978-88-452-5954-8]
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.
References
ee also
*Nuclear debate
*Referendum in Italy
*Nuclear power in Italy
External links
* [http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/no.nukes/react02b.html Referenda and Nuclear Power Plants - A Historical Overview] at the Greenpeace archive.
* [http://www.platts.com/Nuclear/Resources/News%20Features/europeannuclear/index.xml European Nuclear Outlook] at the McGraw-Hill online energy resource site summarizes past referendums.
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