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US, Italy sign pact to build nuclear power stations | Markets | Markets News | Reuters - 0 views

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    The United States and Italy on Tuesday signed a nuclear cooperation deal that would enlist U.S. companies to help build a string of nuclear power stations across Italy, ending a 22-year ban by the Italian government. "Italy is restarting its nuclear energy again," U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu told reporters. "It has aggressive goals, very admirable goals, in decreasing its carbon emissions through nuclear, through renewable energy, through improvements and efficiency." Chu said companies like General Electric (GE.N) and Toshiba Corp (6502.T) unit Westinghouse will be able to bid on projects in Italy, which hopes to issue in mid-February criteria that would determine the location of the facilities.
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    The United States and Italy on Tuesday signed a nuclear cooperation deal that would enlist U.S. companies to help build a string of nuclear power stations across Italy, ending a 22-year ban by the Italian government. "Italy is restarting its nuclear energy again," U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu told reporters. "It has aggressive goals, very admirable goals, in decreasing its carbon emissions through nuclear, through renewable energy, through improvements and efficiency." Chu said companies like General Electric (GE.N) and Toshiba Corp (6502.T) unit Westinghouse will be able to bid on projects in Italy, which hopes to issue in mid-February criteria that would determine the location of the facilities.
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ANALYSIS-Italy speeds up nuclear plans but problems pile up By Reuters - 0 views

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    Italy's plans to relaunch nuclear energy are gathering speed but could stutter because of problems with finding sites and funding, experts said. Italy, the only Group of Eight industrialised country without nuclear power, is seeking to diversify its energy supplies to reduce heavy dependence on fossil fuel imports. But lifting the nuclear ban is a politically charged issue. Italy signed a nuclear energy cooperation deal with sector leader France on Tuesday. French power company EDF was enlisted to help Italy's Enel build four nuclear plants in Italy. "Italy seems to be waking up and trying to change its course and focus on building nuclear plants," said Alessandro Clerici, honorary chairman of the World Energy Council for Italy. The major obstacles are the absence of a long-term energy policy and grassroot public opposition, he said.
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Italy court rejects regions' appeal on nuclear sites | Reuters - 0 views

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    "- 10 regions had appealed for say on location of plants - Ruling gives central govt final say on siting Italy's top court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by 10 Italian regions to have a say on the location of any nuclear power plants built, judicial sources said. The ruling by the constitutional court, which had been championed by companies hoping to build the plants and opposed by environmental groups, effectively means the central government will have the final say on the site of the plants. Italy is the only Group of Eight industrialised nation without nuclear power, but the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi aims to relaunch it and have a quarter of all power in the country generated by nuclear plants in the future. Nuclear power was discontinued in Italy nearly 25 years ago after a referendum. Enel (ENEI.MI) and France's EDF (EDF.PA) would like to start building four nuclear power stations in Italy in 2013. Public opinion in Italy has been generally hostile to nuclear energy and local authorities had demanded a say in their approval."
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Italy approves decree on nuclear sites selection | Markets | Reuters - 0 views

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    "* Decree to settle criteria for nuclear plant sites * Italy abandoned nuclear power 20 years ago * Companies building plants will pay local regions ROME, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Italy moved a step closer to reinstating nuclear energy, abandoned more than 20 years ago, after the government on Wednesday gave a final approval to a decree setting criteria to select sites for new atomic plants. The decree will pave the way for starting work on new plants in 2013 and production of the first nuclear power in 2020, Economic Development Minister Claudio Scajola, a leading supporter of Italy's nuclear renaissance, said in a statement. Italy is the only member of the Group of Eight industrialised nations without nuclear power after it was banned by a public vote in 1987 following the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine. Silvio Berlusconi's government aims to rebuild the sector and produce 25 percent of power from nuclear plants. "The decree is characterised by transparency and absolute respect to security of people and environment," Scajola said."
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AGI News On - WASTE: ITALY REASSURES GERMANY - 0 views

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    (AGI) - Rome, June 6 - Italy has offered ample reassurance and guarantees to Germany and Hamburg authorities that all trains loaded with garbage departing from the Campania region will be checked, including by special fire department units. Such is the news on the waste emergency. Italian reassurances follow the discovery of traces of radioactivity in Hamburg in a load of waste material arriving from the Campania region. Next week some eight trains should leave Italy and head for waste disposal plants in Germany. Some voices claim that radioactive traces contained in waste delivered to Germany are due to the presence of "131 iodine" used in scintigraphy, a nuclear medicine examination that is used to diagnose bone tumours and thyroid cancer.
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FACTBOX-Italy and France cooperate on nuclear power | Reuters - 0 views

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    French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi signed a nuclear cooperation deal on Tuesday at a bilateral summit. [nLO637203] Italian utility Enel (ENEI.MI) said it had agreed with French power giant EDF (EDF.PA) to study the feasibility of building four nuclear plants in Italy and to extend Enel's involvement in France's nuclear programme. The two companies will set up a 50-50 joint venture for the feasibility study then, once Italy passes a new law authorising construction of new plants -- suspended by a 1987 referendum -- they would set up holding companies to build four new plants.
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Italy Nuclear Power Plan May Cost EU40 Billion, Sole Reports - Bloomberg.com - 0 views

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    Italy's plan to increase nuclear power may cost 40 billion euros ($59 billion,) Enel SpA Chief Executive Officer Fulvio Conti told daily Il Sole 24 Ore. Italy will probably need about eight reactors that will cost as much as 5 billion euros each, Conti said, according to the newspaper. Italy, which has the highest electricity prices in the European Union, has been looking for ways to cut power costs and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Italians voted to shutter the country's nuclear power plants in a 1987 referendum following the Chernobyl power-plant accident in the former Soviet Union. Enel may invest an additional $1.3 billion over the next three to four years in the U.S., where the utility has invested in renewable energy projects, Conti told the newspaper.
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Legislation supporting nuclear energy advances in Italy - 0 views

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    The reintroduction of nuclear power in Italy moved closer July 1 when proposed legislation successfully went through the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies. The deputies' approval of the bill after some modifications follows its passage through the upper house. The bill includes a package of measures on fiscal consolidation and energy matters, specifically nuclear energy. The bill will now go back to the Senate for final revisions. The government has said it is working toward a target of 25% of energy to be provided by nuclear power by 2030. Italy closed all its nuclear power plants after the 1986 Chernobyl accident.
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Why import nuclear waste? The Post and Courier - Charleston SC newspaper - 0 views

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    Italy has some great imports -- pointy shoes, beautifully designed sports cars, a wide variety of wines and fancy leather products, to name a few. But the United States should draw the line at Italian nuclear waste. Why accept foreign nuclear waste when we can't handle our own? Plans to import 20,000 tons of nuclear waste through either the port of Charleston or New Orleans have properly drawn a congressional challenge. A bill approved by the House this week would halt plans to bring low-level radioactive waste from Italy to Tennessee, where it would be processed for eventual disposal at a desert location in Utah. About 1,600 tons would be buried there.
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    Italy has some great imports -- pointy shoes, beautifully designed sports cars, a wide variety of wines and fancy leather products, to name a few. But the United States should draw the line at Italian nuclear waste. Why accept foreign nuclear waste when we can't handle our own? Plans to import 20,000 tons of nuclear waste through either the port of Charleston or New Orleans have properly drawn a congressional challenge. A bill approved by the House this week would halt plans to bring low-level radioactive waste from Italy to Tennessee, where it would be processed for eventual disposal at a desert location in Utah. About 1,600 tons would be buried there.
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Utah appeals decision on radioactive waste from Italy | Deseret News - 0 views

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    "Utah should have a say over whether a company can ship low-level radioactive waste from another country into the state, attorneys argued Thursday before a federal appeals court. Attorneys for Utah and an interstate compact that regulates the waste argued before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the law creating the compact gives the state and other members broad authority. They asked the judges to reverse a Utah federal court decision saying the Northwest Interstate Compact can't block EnergySolutions Inc. from shipping in low-level radioactive waste from Italy. EnergySolutions wants to import up to 20,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Italy. The waste would be processed in Tennessee, and about 1,600 tons would be disposed of in Utah."
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Utah seeks fed hearing as opposition to out-of-country nuke waste swells - Salt Lake Tr... - 0 views

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    The state of Utah wants federal regulators to turn away radioactive waste from Italy. On Tuesday, it asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reject a Utah company's request to import the foreign waste as the agency began tallying nearly 4,000 postcards, letters and e-mails on the request. It was the final day for public comment on plans by Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions Inc. to ship 20,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Italy, recycle most of it in Tennessee and bury the remaining 1,600 tons in Utah.
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Italy's waste is called too hot for Utah - Salt Lake Tribune - 0 views

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    Radioactive waste that Italy wants buried in Utah might be too hot to handle here. Critics looking at technical aspects of EnergySolutions' plans to import 20,000 tons of cleanup waste from Italy's nuclear reactors say state and federal regulators need more information before signing off on the Salt Lake City company's proposal. The company's Italy waste plans have already come under fire on policy grounds, with Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. promising to use the state's vote on a regional waste panel to stop future foreign waste imports and Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah seeking federal legislation to do the same.
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Italian nuclear waste has Utah, NRC fingerpointing at each other - Salt Lake Tribune - 0 views

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    Plans to bury radioactive waste from Italy in Utah's West Desert have become a game of hot potato between federal regulators and the state government. Both Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. nor the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission deny they have the authority to stop the Italy waste. While they point fingers at one another, saying only the other has the power to settle the issue, the plan has attracted an unprecedented interest among Americans, and even a few Europeans.
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BBC NEWS | Mafia 'sank ships of toxic waste' - 0 views

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    A shipwreck apparently containing toxic waste is being investigated by authorities in Italy amid claims that it was deliberately sunk by the mafia. An informant from the Calabrian mafia said the ship was one of a number he blew up as part of an illegal operation to bypass laws on toxic waste disposal. The sunken vessel has been found 30km (18 miles) off the south-west of Italy. The informant said it contained "nuclear" material. Officials said it would be tested for radioactivity. Murky pictures taken by a robot camera show the vessel intact and alongside it are a number of yellow barrels. Labels on them say the contents are toxic. The informant said the mafia had muscled in on the lucrative business of radioactive waste disposal.
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Foreign waste: The ball is back in NRC's court | Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground... - 0 views

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    After last week's Federal Court ruling that a regional compact didn't have the authority to deny waste shipments to the EnergySolutions landfill in Utah, the decision on whether to allow EnergySolutions to import up to 20,000 tons of radioactive waste from Italy is back in the hands of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Italian waste would be brought intitially to the EnergySolutions facility in Oak Ridge for incineration and other treatments, with the remaining residues sent to Utah for disposal. That's the plan. NRC spokesman David McIntyre said today the NRC has not taken any action regarding EnergySolutions' application for an import license. He noted that that the commission earlier "set the matter aside" because of the pending activity in Federal Court. Now, unless there is an appeal of the court ruling, McIntyre confirmed that the next move would involve the NRC. But, he said, it's not necessarily clear what step that would be. The import application, which contains the EnergySolutions proposal to import waste from Italy, has generated much controversy and more public comment than any similar application ever.
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Radioactive waste from Italy still needs a passport - Salt Lake Tribune - 0 views

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    EnergySolutions Inc. was a big winner in federal court Friday, but the Salt Lake City nuclear waste company is still a long way from its goal of bringing low-level radioactive waste from Italy and disposing it in Utah. Multiple hurdles remain, including a possible court appeal and pending legislation in Congress to ban importation of waste from outside U.S. borders. Although U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart ruled Friday that a regional oversight group has no authority to stop EnergySolutions from using its Utah site to bury foreign radioactive, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not revived its review of the Italy import request, said commission spokesman David McIntyre. "You might have something from the commission soon," he said, "but it is not going to be a yea or nay on the license." Like their counterparts at the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-level Radioactive Waste, the state of Utah and Congress, the NRC's lawyers are studying Stewart's ruling . The judge found Congress never intended to give the compacts power to say what goes into disposal sites not specifically designated for the regional waste groups.
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Italy Greens leak sensitive nuclear site list | Reuters - 0 views

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    Italy's Green Party leaked on Tuesday the names of potential nuclear power sites it claims Enel (ENEI.MI) has identified -- information that could spark strong local resistance to nuclear renaissance plans. Italy, which abandoned nuclear energy after a referendum in 1987, aims to reintroduce nuclear power to cut energy bills, diversify its fuel mix and reduce carbon emissions. The centre-right government of Silvio Berlusconi has said it aims to generate about 25 percent of its power from nuclear sources but has yet to identify the sites for the plants. Public opinion has been generally hostile to nuclear energy and with local authorities having a crucial say in the approval of industrial projects the worry is that nuclear plans could be obstructed once the sites have been named.
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    Italy's Green Party leaked on Tuesday the names of potential nuclear power sites it claims Enel (ENEI.MI) has identified -- information that could spark strong local resistance to nuclear renaissance plans. Italy, which abandoned nuclear energy after a referendum in 1987, aims to reintroduce nuclear power to cut energy bills, diversify its fuel mix and reduce carbon emissions. The centre-right government of Silvio Berlusconi has said it aims to generate about 25 percent of its power from nuclear sources but has yet to identify the sites for the plants. Public opinion has been generally hostile to nuclear energy and with local authorities having a crucial say in the approval of industrial projects the worry is that nuclear plans could be obstructed once the sites have been named.
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Deseret News | Ban on foreign waste from Italy to Utah gets OK - 0 views

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    The U.S. House voted Wednesday to ban importing foreign low-level radioactive waste and block an attempt by EnergySolutions to bring tons of it from Italy to Utah. It voted 309-112 for a bill pushed by Reps. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., to bar such foreign waste, which includes lab coats, shoe coverings and cleaning cloths from nuclear power plants. EnergySolutions has proposed to process 20,000 tons of Italian waste in Tennessee and dump it in Utah. The bill now goes to the Senate. Matheson and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, voted for the bill. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, was with Utah students touring Virginia and missed the vote but has spoken against it previously. He was once a state lobbyist for EnergySolutions and received about $26,000 from the company's political action committee and employees for his 2008 election and $5,000 this year.
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    The U.S. House voted Wednesday to ban importing foreign low-level radioactive waste and block an attempt by EnergySolutions to bring tons of it from Italy to Utah. It voted 309-112 for a bill pushed by Reps. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., to bar such foreign waste, which includes lab coats, shoe coverings and cleaning cloths from nuclear power plants. EnergySolutions has proposed to process 20,000 tons of Italian waste in Tennessee and dump it in Utah. The bill now goes to the Senate. Matheson and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, voted for the bill. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, was with Utah students touring Virginia and missed the vote but has spoken against it previously. He was once a state lobbyist for EnergySolutions and received about $26,000 from the company's political action committee and employees for his 2008 election and $5,000 this year.
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EnergySolutions fracas: Opposition grows to Italy waste imports - Salt Lake Tribune - 0 views

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    Thousands of postcards, letters and e-mails have inundated the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff reviewing a Utah company's request to import radioactive waste from Italy. The tally exceeded 2,500 Tuesday, the final day of a public comment period on plans by Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions Inc. The NRC said it is unclear whether a formal or informal hearing has been requested on the waste import, so it cannot say when a decision is expected on the company's request.
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BBC NEWS | Italy 'to revive nuclear power' - 0 views

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    Italy says it is to restart its nuclear energy programme, more than 20 years after it was scrapped by referendum in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster.
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