Italian parliament backs Meloni's plan to restart nuclear power
The law sets a 12-month deadline for rules on licensing, safety, waste and site selection, while support for next-generation plants has reached 55%, pollsters said.
- On Wednesday, Italy's Senate approved legislation to restart nuclear power nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl disaster prompted the country to abandon atomic energy.
- Premier Giorgia Meloni's administration seeks to bolster energy security and meet climate goals, arguing that technological advances have rendered the 1987 anti-nuclear vote obsolete amid rising electricity demand.
- The government is focusing on small modular reactors , with industry estimates placing costs at $3.5 billion to $7 billion per unit, while about 55% of Italians support next-generation nuclear plants.
- Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said the government has 12 months to establish implementing decrees for safety and licensing, noting that new plants will prioritize already developed land.
- Although the regulatory framework is established, Michele Governatori of think tank ECCO warns of limited private-sector investment appetite, and Italy still lacks a permanent national repository for radioactive waste.
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The Italian Senate has approved the law that prepares the return to nuclear energy. The government has 12 months to establish the rules, but the construction of reactors is not yet authorized.
ROME (AP) — The Italian Senate gave final approval to legislation on Wednesday that paves the way for a return to nuclear power almost four decades after the Chernobyl disaster led the country...
On paper is the end of an era and the beginning (or the return) to another, that of nuclear energy. The last power plant was finally closed on July 1, 1990, when the activity of the reactor of Trino Vercellese, in Piedmont, was completed, even if there the production of electricity had already stopped, a few months before the referendum [...] The Nuclear article, green light to the law. Pichetto: "Historical day" . Calenda is with him, from the …
Members of the Italian Senate have passed a law enabling the country to develop nuclear power again, almost 40 years after it was abandoned, Bloomberg reports.
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