Comitato Nucleare e Ragione

Mission & Goals

Comitato Nucleare e Ragione was born in April 2011, following the accident at Fukushima-Daiichi NPP caused by the tsunami generated by Tōhoku Earthquake. It was founded as a cultural and no-profit organization by young physics researchers and students of the University of Trieste (Italy) and other European research centers. In the years other people from many disciplines joined as well. The mission of the early days after the foundation of Nucleare e Ragione (that means literally Nuclear and Reason, i.e. to use the reason instead of emotions to understand nuclear energy) was to counteract the overwhelming misinformation spread on mainstream Italian media around the Fukushima accident. Few months later, while Italy was undergoing a campaign to ban nuclear energy use through a referendum, Nucleare e Ragione actively took part in it, informing people about pro and contras of the two possible outcomes, having in mind that any decision on energy policy affect people life, thus peop (...)