Nuclear Politics

Italy / National Society Calls For Government To Restart Nuclear Programme As Part Of ‘Energy Mix Of Future’

By Mattia Baldoni
4 January 2023

Conference hears calls for long-term policy which takes into account ‘all low-carbon technologies’
National Society Calls For Government To Restart Nuclear Programme As Part Of ‘Energy Mix Of Future’
Italy shut down the last of the plants, Caorso and Enrico Fermi (pictured), in July 1990 following a referendum in the wake of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Courtesy Alessandroo Vecchi/Wikimedia.
Italy needs to develop a national energy policy that includes restarting its nuclear power programme as it seeks to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and imports from Russia, the president of the Italian Nuclear Association (Associazione Italiana Nucleare, AIN) said.

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