Italy to postpone shutdown of coal-powered plants by 13 years

It’s a study from a university that says it is possible that only works with high temp HTGR reactors. And it’s fairly likely that building a new plant will end up cheaper than renovating an old plant. 

> you have to select a place to handle the waste (Italy still doesn't have a national repository for *medical* radioactive waste because of local oppositions and distrust), then you have to select a contractor to handle the waste disposal (and pray they are not corrupted, mob adjacent or just stupid enough so that they can handle the waste properly) then you have to control everything (waste, power plants, people backgrounds for workers) and trust that the controls are done properly (or done at all, or that the controllers aren't just bribed to look the other way). Tbh I hope they simply delegate most of this to France where it should clearly be easier and more organized. > Solar could be built a lot faster. Italy has less solar than Germany Which is totally stupid for Europe tbh, solar panels could produce much more in Italy than in Germany and Europe is very poorly organized for energy. European countries should cooperate more. > My personal solution would be an EU agency for nuclear energy with standardized models for power plants I'm french and personally I absolutely don't trust the EU on anything related to nuclear energy. Even recently they probed the way we wanted to pay for our future nuclear reactors. They asked countries like Bulgaria to shutdown their NPPs before entering the EU. They even refused to consider nuclear energy as "green energy" at first, while they wanted to include fossil fuels = natural gas. I trust cooperation among EU member states, but I don't trust EU agencies that would be under the Commission’s control. Most EU agencies are anti-nuclear and I would never accept them to decide on these things at least for us. Now if some countries (italy, germany etc.) want to create their own nuclear power plants, they can do it, but I hope they try to learn from the experience of European countries that are already developing such plans: UK, France, Finland, Sweden etc. I think the best plan would just be for France to send its own design to all european countries, this, or to build VVER (but sadly it's a russian design, though ukrainians and some eastern european countries work with it). The worst thing is that it started like that 20 years ago. At first the current french design "EPR" = "European Pressurized Reactor" was a cooperation between France and Germany. But Germany left the project. Now this EPR is still European: UK and Finland are building it or built it. But the 1st version was way too complicated so France designed an EPR2, which is what we're going to build, thanks to the experience we got. I'd highly recommend to either build that, or VVER, or something which is very similar to these two, so that failure is not an option and the risk is reduced. You have to copy an existing design / system to be efficient.