This article on nuclear energy is published in number 13 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until March 25, 2025.
The Premier of Poland Donald Tusk He said his country wants to be protected from French nuclear arsenal. And he must arm himself, not only with conventional weapons. Translated: Poland wants to have a nuclear arsenal.
Donald Trump’s choice to question multilateral relations built by the United States after the war, in particular with Europe, had the predictable effect of triggering a New interest in the atomic weapon. Even many Italian pacifists say that instead of spending billions on tanks, hunting and drones, Europe should focus on nuclear deterrence. During the Cold War, the race to equip itself with apocalyptic weapons had stopped only because The United States had guaranteed their atomic coverage To countries that, in exchange for security, accepted the rules of an international economic and political order tailored to their needs.
The exceptions were few: it has the atomic bomb there Great Britainwho did not want a subordinate role, and it has it Francewho with General Charles De Gaulle in the 1950s and 1960s did not trust the Americans. And then the ChinatheIndia and the Pakistanthe North Korea, Israeleach for reasons of regional supremacy or survival. Arrived at the White House with the promise to stop the ongoing wars, Trump created the conditions for a new, dangerous, armament race: The mutual destruction of the countries armed with nuclear bombs is a deterrent only if the actors are rational. And today of rationality it sees little.
This atomic armaments race is intertwined with A return of civil nuclear powerfor environmental, geopolitical and technological reasons. There Germany of the incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz wants to return to the atom as soon as possible after the farewell of 2011, because It can no longer count on Russian gas at a low price. Many countries, such as Italy, who try to curb the European ecological transition measures, press to resort to nuclear power plants, which do not emit carbon dioxide but produce almost eternal waste that is not known how to dispose of.
And in Italy it has never been decided to put the national warehouse of old nuclear waste, which continue to be stowed here and there with poor safety. The Meloni government He has just approved the nuclear bill that wants to be the premise to overcoming the double referendum – 1987 and 2011 – which excluded atomic energy from Italy: We import it, but we do not produce it.
The center -right seems to focus a lot on nuclear fusion technology, an alternative to the fission, which produces less waste but it is not yet mature To be used on a large scale. But there is more and more nuclear power, also because large technological societies such as Google or Openaiwho need enormous constant quantities of energy to make the microchips work on which artificial intelligences are trained, they focus on mini-readers Instead of large plants. Even those could be a formula for the new European nuclear power.
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