Italy Returns to Nuclear Power

Another country that is going to the wrong directions just to meet some of their needs. Italy announced recently that they are going to go back to nuclear power. To give a little history on Italy energy production at one time Italy had four nuclear power plants. All of these plants were all decommissioned and are being demolished. But Italy is preparing to start its nuclear energy program again. The government says in order to satisfy the country’s energy needs it is necessary to return to using nuclear power again. The government believe it is the best decision they can make to meet the energy demand since they import 80% of the fossil fuels just to use it to supply for electricity. Even still the Italian voters passed a national referendum by 80% margin and banned a nuclear power in Italy, the italian government passed a new law that sidesteps the referendum.
Under the Kyoto protocol, Italy is required to improve its energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. In order to meet its commitments Italy says it has return to nuclear power.

In reality Italy is taking a step back in plans that they are going to need to step forward in the future. The Italian government see that in order to reduce their fossil fuel consumption the solution is to simply turn to nuclear power, which is the wrong direction. To improve this article Brahms should of went into more details of how Italy supported their energy consumption after they tore down the four nuclear power plants that they had. They should have consider the fact that 80% of their population doesn’t support the idea of using nuclear power plants, so that have impacted their decision making and make them realize that approaching the problem in a Green way it would of been better.