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John ONeill

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1. Lead-cooled reactor
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 10:41 AM
Mar 2023

Romania is supposed to be the site where the prototype 'Alfred' lead-cooled reactor will be built. The company leading the project is Italian, but since the failure of then-Prime Minister Berlusconi's referendum to make nuclear legal in Italy again, they've had to offshore some of their work. Romania and Italy have a cultural affinity through their Latin-based languages.
The original referendum that destroyed the Italian nuclear power sector was right after Chernobyl, while the Berlusconi referendum trying to reverse it was just after both Fukushima, and a scandal involving Berlusconi himself and teenage girls.
The new right-wing Italian government is too Trumpish for my taste, but it shares his liking for nuclear.

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