Nuclear Politics

Italy / Nuclear Back On Agenda As Support For Advanced Reactor Technologies Grows

By Mattia Baldoni
21 September 2021

Italians reconsider stance in face of climate change and rising electricity costs
Nuclear Back On Agenda As Support For Advanced Reactor Technologies Grows
Italy shut down the last of the plants, Caorso (pictured) and Enrico Fermi, in July 1990 following a referendum in the wake of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Courtesy Sogin.
Opinion polls in Italy suggest that despite voting to phase out commercial nuclear power following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, support is growing for the deployment of advanced nuclear technologies including small modular reactors.

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