So imagine what could happen with a nuclear plant... (nuclear is safe, building in Italy is often not)
Remember when Italy paid the mafia to get rid of nuclear waste, they put it on old boats and sunk them :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_waste_dumping_by_the_%27...
Apparently even mafias bosses know that famous cartoon where it says that you could swim in the exhaust nuclear bars cooling pool
Italy's the 3rd largest economy in the EU, and 8th in the world, with an advanced technology sector to boot.
And if they somehow cannot figure it out, their French neighbors most assuredly can.
for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi_collapse
and also check what happens (now more than ever) everytime there's a big rain in a lot of italian places. I'm very concerned about this.
I assume same applies in Italy, given that we share some of those stereotypes.
Additionally, one just has to watch the news to see how it works, especially among our beloved politicians and major economical groups, should I list them here for our foreign friends?
Or are you going to say it is all fake news?
It's nuclear, not burning clothes or giving your uncle the building contract.
As long as the people in power are famous for lying and twisting reality, we should not touch nuclear.
Regarding what happened during that heatwave, there are, rightfully so, regulations on how hot the water can be to be dumped into regular rivers. These regulations ensure the protection of the marine life and ecosystem of these rivers. During the that summer, the rivers' natural temperature was almost as hot as the threshold set by these regulations, so they could not dump any hot water into the rivers. But there are add-ons solutions to this in the future, such as cooling ponds where they would let water temperature dissipate before dumping it into the rivers.