Nucleare in Italia?

This post will be in Italian, as it is mainly about the upcoming referendum in Italy to choose whether to begin construction, and use, of nuclear power plants in Italy...

Il cosiddetto "disastro" alla centrale nucleare di Fukushima non e' affatto un disastro, anzi, io lo vedo come un successo della specie umana, o meglio del popolo Giapponese. L'impianto nucleare di Fukushima e' stato costruito per supportare un terremoto massimo di 8.2 sulla scala Richter. Il terremoto appena accaduto misurava 8.9, ben 11 volte più' potente (scala Richter e' logaritmica). Ora vorrei far notare che subito dopo il terremoto, gli impianti di sicurezza hanno comunque funzionato benissimo. I problemi di cui sentiamo parlare ora della centrale di Fukushima non sono stati causati dal terremoto ma dallo tsunami. Infatti se non fosse stato per lo tsunami, non ci sarebbero stati alcuni danni. Vi dico di più'. Se non fosse stato per lo tsunami, la centrale probabilmente avrebbe ricominciato a produrre energia! Subito dopo il terremoto il primo dei sistemi di sicurezza si e' attivato, usando come fonte di energia generatori a diesel. Dopo un ora, lo tsunami a rotto questi generatori, e' per di più' ha anche rotto la rete elettrica che collegava la centrale alle rete principale. Sono state queste mancanze di fonti energetiche (causata dallo tsunami) a causare il surriscaldamento.

Tornando al discorso, io il "disastro" lo vedo come un successo dell'umanità' nel conquistare e ammaestrare la tecnologia. Potrei infatti andare avanti per ore descrivendo come gli ingeneri Giapponesi stiano eseguendo un capolavoro nel controllare i livelli di radiazione intorno all'impianto, tenendo conto del disastro accaduto dallo tsunami.

Fra quasi 3 mesi, in Italia, ci sarà' un referendum sulla costruzione ed uso delle centrali nucleari, e sono sicuro che l'opinione delle persone sia stato (anche se secondo me in modo sbagliatissimo) influito dagli eventi appena accaduti in Giappone. Ora, sentendo le persone su facebook il motivo principale per dire no e' il fatto che l'Italia sia un paese sismico. Io rispondo: "Quindi? quale' il problema?". Il terremoto più' forte mai registrato in Italia e di 7.5 sulla scala Richter accaduto in Sicilia nel 1693 (per quanto sia riuscito a trovare!). Per rendere la cosa più' chiara: Il terremoto più potente mai registrato in Italia e' accaduto più' di 300 anni fa', ed era ben 125 volte MENO potente di quello appena accaduto in Giappone. Se in Italia si costruissero mai delle centrali nucleari, lo si farà' tenendo conto del peggio, anche quello che e' appena accaduto in Giappone, e le centrali saranno molto più' moderne di quella di Fukushima. Infatti la centrale di Fukushima fu commissionata nel 1971, e per ben 41 anni ha retto moltissimi terremoti Giapponesi, uno in particolare nel 78' più' potente di quello in Sicilia nel 1693! Vi dico di più': ha anche retto quest'ultimo(!), il problema come ho detto prima, e' stato lo tsunami.   

Il 12 Giugno, il giorno del referendum sul nucleare, se non sei sicuro/a cosa votare, LASCIA LA SCHEDA BIANCA! Infatti se non ti fai bene un idea di quello che il nucleare porta o meno alla società', e segui il parere di altre persone "fidandoti", rovini il concetto di democrazia. Io qui non voglio convincere persone a votare pro o contro il nucleare, voglio solo far notare che ci sono moltissimi pregiudizi sulla costruzione di centrali nucleari, specialmente in Italia. Questi pregiudizi, e paura, sono (credo) principalmente causati dal fatto che la maggior parte della popolazione non sa, o non capisce, cosa sia l'energia nucleare. Quindi ribadisco, se non sai, lascia la scheda bianca, e ancor più', aspetta e guarda prima di farti un opinione!

4 trials in 40 days

I think this is a record in western politics for a prime minister: 4 different trials in 40 days. This is what is facing Berlusconi soon, as his Rubygate trial begins, and his previous three trials resume. Another probable record breaker instead is that Berlusconi is the most persecuted prime minister in western civilisation. Adding on, he has recently claimed to have spent over 200 million euro in order to defend himself in the courts, setting yet again a record for a prime minister. In fact, Berlusconi himself regularly defends himself, in his "style", saying he has been so outstanding in the past that he now has a lot of money, which in turn allows him to defend himself from judges who are trying to pursue a "vendetta" on him. Im am not exactly sure why the judges would be doing this, however Berlusconi has been put under trial many times in the past, and not yet found guilty in any one and this is why, Berlusconi says, the magistrates (some the same) are trying to take "revenge". This latest Rubygate scandal is by far the most controversial, to say the least, of all the Berlusxoni trials, past and presnt. Again as I probably already said before, I really couldn't care less to know what a regular person does in his private life. However for a prime minister, things are a bit different. Anyway, in this case, the magistrates are claiming Berlusconi had sex with an underage girl, which is for sure something the general italian population should know about their prime minister. To know the truth, or at least the judiciary truth, we will have to wait for the hearings of the trial to end, which might take a while. However, for Italy, the outcome can only be negative. If the magistrates are right, then Italy voted a paedophile since 1994, which is definitely not good (I'll stop there!). If on the other hand Berlusconi is right, then it would mean that a lot of the italian magistrates are pursuing their own personal interests instead of following the law (not that Italians are good at that, but at least magistrates should!), making the whole Italian judiciary system a big joke! Of course both could be true(!), so whichever the truth, it all looks bad for Italy.    

"Escort-esque"

Here we go again!

Our great prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and his "escort-esque" stories all over the news...again! Italy is fallen again in one of these wells! About a week ago the Italian constitutional court had to decide whether the legitimate impediment (the law preventing Berlusconi from being trialled or investigated by the police) agreed or went against the constitution of Italy. Their decision? They weren't sure either. After a two day meeting they decided to let the judges dealing with the cases (3 of them) decide whether Berlusconi's "excuses" (given he is a prime minister after all and should be working a lot!) for not appearing in court were valid or not. His trials restarted, but now Berlusconi can still extend them dramatically by having "good excuses" for not appearing in court. So basically, nothing changed, and the constitutional court decision was pretty useless...

But then, the next day, the Italian prosecutors came up with a new accusation (on top of the other 3) to Berlusconi: under age sex and prostitution allegations! Previously Berlusconi had been accused of fraud, corruption and false testimony, but never for anything this big. I mean, under-age sex and prostitution? Berlusconi? It doesen't sound right does it? And the coincidence: the day after the constitutional court ruling, the magistrates accuse Berlusconi of something new? I can imagine how he can get away with most if not all of anything "wrong" he is doing, but this? I am not quite sure what to believe now, and to be really honest, I couldn't care less what Berlusconi is up to or not. The point is that this story has once again stopped politicians from talking about what is important for the country, and talk instead of Berlusconi wrong-doings. The centre-left party does just that: say how unsuitable Berlusconi is a prime minister without never saying what they would do instead, and the centre-right keeps repeating to them that Berlusconi never did anything wrong and the magistrates are politically-driven to "bring him down".

Just today the magistrates released some evidence, which if true, would cast no doubt on Berlusconi's guiltiness. But is all of this true in the first place? The coincidence, the fact that the allegations are so massive, (especially for a prime minister since 1994), the fact that he is so popular in Italy after all? Who knows...but two things are for sure: 1) I am defiantly NOT a Berlusconi supporter and 2) Anyone involved in 4 trials involving pretty much all the worst cases but killing, and involved in massive media and other businesses all over Italy and beyond, cannot have the time and concentration to be a successful prime minister. So WHY is this guy still there? Why hasn't his own party kicked him out! It would happen anywhere, ANYWHERE, else in Europe, especially with these new allegations on prostitution. But not in Italy! So we will have to keep him there and listen to all his stories unfold. Was he ever involved in the Mafia? Has he corrupted lawyer Mills to say the false in court? Has he had sex with an under-age Moroccan girl first referred to as the "nephew of president Mubarak"? If your interested here is the latest BBC report on it, and just to show how serious this last allegation on Berlusconi is, the above picture is the front page of the document (in Italian) from the magistrates asking the house of chambers permission to raid Berlusconi's residences to search for proofs regarding the sex scandal. Mental (!), and what's even more mental is that chances are that nothing will change in Italy because of this new, more crazy, Berlusconi story.