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Italy / Parliament Votes In Favour Of Return To Nuclear Power

By David Dalton
11 May 2023

Country, which shut down all reactors after Chernobyl, could have capacity of 35 GW from seven plants by 2050

Parliament Votes In Favour Of Return To Nuclear Power
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.
The Italian parliament has backed the government’s plan to include nuclear in the country’s energy mix as part of its decarbonisation efforts after the country abandoned its nuclear programme nearly four decades ago.

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