Environment and Energy Security Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said Rome plans to introduce legislation to enable investments in small modular nuclear reactors.
is planning to reintroduce nuclear energy 35 years after Italy shut down its last atomic plant, in a bid to lower the country’s carbon emissions.that Rome plans to introduce legislation to enable investments in small modular nuclear reactors, which could be operational within 10 years.
Renewable technologies such as solar and wind power “cannot provide the security that we need”, he argued, reflecting his government’s scepticism towards these technologies.Italy built four nuclear power stations in the 1960s and ’70s and had planned an ambitious expansion of its nuclear power capacity. But after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union, Italians voted overwhelmingly in a national referendum to end subsidies for the development of new reactors.
In a recent survey commissioned by Legambiente, a leading Italian environmental group, 75 per cent of the 1000 respondents expressed scepticism that nuclear power was a solution to Italy’s energy woes. While 25 per cent of respondents staunchly opposed it on safety grounds.Mr Pichetto Fratin said he is confident that Italians’ historic “aversion” to nuclear power could be overcome, given that the newest technology has “different levels of safety and benefits families and businesses”.
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