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by riffraff 1437 days ago
Italy also voted recently to ban nuclear _again_ after it had been allowed a second time. There are some people in favor, but it's unlikely to get reversed any time soon.

FWIW, France is currently importing energy from Germany, and will be doing that until the winter, because they shut down many reactors for maintenance, the futures for electricity in France were > €1200/MWh last week.
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sph 1437 days ago
> Italy also voted recently to ban nuclear _again_ after it had been allowed a second time.

The first referendum was 6 months after Chernobyl, the second one 3 months after Fukushima. No wonder the outcome was overwhelmingly against it. Demagogy in its purest form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Italy

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throwaway0x7E6 1437 days ago
holy fucking shit. will consumers really end up paying 1.2 euro for a kWh?
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