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The problem with nuclear in Italy is just one: how many time have you read about a public bridge fallen because of bad construction? Same for roads, houses and
by aw4y 2y ago
The problem with nuclear in Italy is just one: how many time have you read about a public bridge fallen because of bad construction? Same for roads, houses and so on. Most of the time the reason is the company building those, trying to spend less in materials and avoiding regulations - something unfortunately not so unusual in Italy.
So imagine what could happen with a nuclear plant...
(nuclear is safe, building in Italy is often not)
- amarcheschi 2y agoAs far as I know - which is definitely not that much - there are literally 3rd world countries operating nuclear power plants without accidents. It might have to do with iaea supervision as well, but I don't know what they do irl so I won't comment on that
- torginus 2y agoNational stereotypes... Italy's the 3rd largest economy in the EU, and 8th in the world, with an advanced technology sector to boot. And if they somehow cannot figure it out, their French neighbors most assuredly can.
- aw4y 2y agonot exactly a stereotype, just facts. for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi_collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi_collapse and also check what happens (now more than ever) everytime there's a big rain in a lot of italian places. I'm very concerned about this.
- Recursing 2y agoBridge failures regularly happen in many countries, including France and South Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000%E2%80%93present https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000%E...
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- SecretDreams 2y agoIf you're worried about this, you should probably avoid flying in America.
- pjmlp 2y agoAs Portuguese, and regarding how things work there, regardless of whatever achievements get acomplished, the ways how to do business and handle bureaucracy walls aren't very far from stereotypes, even if it was improved during the last decades. I assume same applies in Italy, given that we share some of those stereotypes.
- regularjack 2y agoI'm portuguese and I completely disagree with this. Stereotypes are just stereotypes, generalizing 10M people into a dumbed down pseudo reality doesn't make sense.
- lillecarl 2y agoIt makes less sense the further from the stereotypical thing you go. It's nuclear, not burning clothes or giving your uncle the building contract.
- pjmlp 2y agoThen I can tell you that the favours culture is as actual as ever, maybe we hang around in different parts of the country. Additionally, one just has to watch the news to see how it works, especially among our beloved politicians and major economical groups, should I list them here for our foreign friends? Or are you going to say it is all fake news?
- Idesmi 2y agoI am Italian and currently live in Italy, and don't trust my government with building nuclear plants. As long as the people in power are famous for lying and twisting reality, we should not touch nuclear.
- braiamp 2y agoWould you welcome your comrades Russian when they roll over your country? No? Then deterrent is the only option.
- kranke155 2y agoFrance has never had a major nuclear accident. The biggest issue is of course, earthquakes in Italy.
- stop50 2y agoThey had luck, depending how hot this summer gets some nuclear facilities have to shut down again because the water gets to warm or they don't have enough water in the cooling water source.
- acatton 2y agoThe low river issue 2 or 3 summers ago was overblown. When there is not enough water, the production can be slowed down to use less water. Regarding what happened during that heatwave, there are, rightfully so, regulations on how hot the water can be to be dumped into regular rivers. These regulations ensure the protection of the marine life and ecosystem of these rivers. During the that summer, the rivers' natural temperature was almost as hot as the threshold set by these regulations, so they could not dump any hot water into the rivers. But there are add-ons solutions to this in the future, such as cooling ponds where they would let water temperature dissipate before dumping it into the rivers.
- kranke155 2y agoYou're saying the media lied to me? For a political point?
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- IlPeach 2y agoI'm sorry, did you forget "mafia"?
- aw4y 2y agoI didn't. that's implied in "avoiding regulations".
- barrkel 2y agoI've generally been impressed with engineering works in northern Italy, the tolled autostrada in the mountains etc.
- Mashimo 2y ago> The problem with nuclear in Italy is just one: Remember when Italy paid the mafia to get rid of nuclear waste, they put it on old boats and sunk them :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_waste_dumping_by_the_%27Ndrangheta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_waste_dumping_by_the_%27...
- JumpinJack_Cash 2y agoWater is the best insulant for radiation. Apparently even mafias bosses know that famous cartoon where it says that you could swim in the exhaust nuclear bars cooling pool
- echoangle 2y agoYou would hope that the containment is sealed for this though, releasing the material into the water still isn't ideal.
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