(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 11 - Deputy Premier and Transport and
Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday that he
hopes Italy will have electricity generated by its own nuclear
power again by 2032.
Italy closed its nuclear plants in 1990 after the 1987
referendum on atomic energy following the Chernobyl disaster.
However, there have been calls for a rethink of the ban, given
that nuclear energy has a low carbon footprint and there is a
need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to meet European and
international targets for combating the climate crisis.
The country is also looking to boost its energy security
following the war caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In September Premier Giorgia Meloni's government said that it
will present a roadmap within seven months for the possible
return to the use of nuclear energy in Italy.
"I asked the engineers in my ministry (and they said that), if
we start in 2024, in 2032 we will be able turn on the first
switch of a nuclear power plant," Salvini told a Rome conference
on atomic energy.
"As a Milanese, I would like the first (nuclear) power plant to
be in Milan". (ANSA).
Salvini eyes return to nuclear power in 2032
Minister says he'd like to see reactor in his home town Milan