Federico Bordonaro

Come anticipato negli scorsi anni dal PINR (si veda qui, qui, e anche qui), le economie più sviluppate sono sempre più propense a dare il là a una nuova fase di espansione dell’energia nucleare civile.

In Europa, non più solo Parigi è su questa linea d’onda. Resta l’opposizione tedesca, dettata in grandissima parte da un problema di consenso elettorale. Fino a quando?

Top economic powers have declared that the world is entering a new era of nuclear energy amid rising concerns over high oil prices and global warming, but Germany stood firmly as an exception.

The Group of Eight industrial nations got together with China, India and South Korea at the weekend in Aomori, a hub of Japan’s nuclear energy industry on the northern tip of the country’s main island of Honshu.

The 11 nations, which together consume two-thirds of world energy said in their joint statement that “a growing number of countries have expressed interest in nuclear power programmes.”

“We are on the verge of a new nuclear age,” John Hutton, Britain’s energy secretary, told reporters.

In ogni caso, vale quel che notavamo tre anni fa:

Since oil prices are expected to remain high, and as global warming — and the associated natural catastrophes — is increasingly linked to the use of fossil energies, expect the E.U. deputies’ initiative to be only the first among a series of attempts to find a viable alternative to oil and gas.