Italy To Dismantle Nuke Plants

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Tuesday December 14 10:07 PM ET 

Italy To Dismantle Nuke Plants  

ROME (AP) - Italy plans to spend nearly $3 billion over the next 20 
years to dismantle its four nuclear power plants and create a 
national depot for nuclear waste, the industry minister said Tuesday. 
 
Italian nuclear plants have been shut down since citizens voted in a 
referendum banning nuclear power in 1987.  

``Until now there was no coherent policy on what to do with the 
results of the referendum: what to do with the power plants, the 
fuel, the waste,'' said Pierluigi Bersani, the industry minister.  

Most of the money will be spent on removing all traces of nuclear 
material from the four plants so the area can be used in other ways.  


Bersani also said the government was in the process of choosing a  
site to develop a national depot for nuclear waste. 

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