Italy and nuclear power? "For the moment the result is zero

"I'm very curious to see the outcome of the referendum on nuclear power in Italy next June." So Gunther Oettinger, EU Commissioner for Energy in front of the European Parliament's Environment Committee. Italy and France, according to the Commissioner, should decide what kind of energy will want to invest in their future.

In the background, the example of Germany and of the seven reactors shut down in recent days by Merkel, Europe's fastest response to the tragedy in Japan. The fate of Europe is inevitably also nuclear policy choices of Italy. In the morning, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, co-chairman of the European Greens, had said he believed that Italy would return to nuclear power.

The silence of Obama on nuclear power

Ironically, Barack Obama, who has revived his arrival at the White House's idea of \u200b\u200ba world without nuclear weapons, has not jumped on the opportunity provided by the disaster in Japan to review its strategy for restarting the Nuclear Energy in the U.S. (20% of the country's electricity only).

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Jordanian government appointed national committee for dialogue

The Jordanian government appointed a national committee for dialogue, composed of 53 members, including several opponents, to study a series of political reforms after protests over the past two months in the Hashemite kingdom. The committee, headed by the chairman of the upper house of Parliament Taher Masri, has been given the task by the Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit to prepare drafts of a new electoral law and party, leading to the election of governments with majorities the lower house, said an official statement.

.- The Fed keeps U.S. rates approaching zero and see a U.S. economic recovery more "firm"

WASHINGTON, Mar. 16 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) decided to keep interest rates at a target range of between 0% and 0.25%, which remain changes since December 2008 and has re-emphasized that it will keep interest rates exceptionally low levels during a "prolonged period" of time due to economic conditions.

Similarly, the institute has ratified the terms of the bond buyback program totaling $ 600,000 million (430,000 million euros) by the end of the second quarter of 2011, which launched in November. The Fed notes that, according to information received since the January meeting, the economic recovery is "in a stronger position," and that the general conditions in the labor market appear to be improving gradually.

"Italy is depressed," a word of comic

Giacinto Palmieri himself as a shy, but it takes some audacity to stand as a stand-up comedian (comedian) in a country where satire has a long tradition and make people laugh in a language that is not the mother. Pugliese of origin, who moved to Milan and emigrated to London, where he worked as senior software developer, used to lie down and look at things with the eye of the foreigner.

Participant observation that turns into laughter when joked about idioms and phrasal verbs English. Giac's interest for the laughter comes with Woody Allen, Dario For and Roberto Benigni, but when his colleagues read laughter than tears a piece of ironic that Hyacinth had sent him by mistake, that interest becomes a passion .

How does one class a nuclear accident?

The events in Japan have led the NSA to classify the nuclear disaster at level 6 / 7 from around the world.

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Japan asks U.S. aid to nuclear crisis

Japan formally asked U.S. aid to control its nuclear plants, which collapsed after the earthquake and tsunami of the weekend, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRC). "The Japanese government formally requested U.S. assistance to the issue of nuclear plant cooling generated by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11," the NRC.

"The NRC is considering possible responses to the request, including providing technical advice," he added. The agency said it had sent two experts in reactors in Japan, as part of a team from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and "currently in Tokyo to provide technical assistance." On Monday, a double explosion in reactor number 3 of the Fukushima nuclear plant 1 further fueled fears of a nuclear disaster in Japan after an earthquake and tsunami that could have left more than 10 thousand dead.

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