Italy will not build new
government-funded fourth-generation nuclear power plants to aid
the green transition but will not stand in the way of local
industrial districts and energy companies who want to do so,
Environment Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said in a
newspaper interview Monday.
If the districts and companies decide to build the plants, the
government will act as regulator, he told la Repubblica.
The minister said in the interview: "We will never build new
nuclear power plants in Italy.
"It will possibly be the industrial districts or individual
energy companies that will equip themselves with small
fourth-generation reactors.
"The state will merely be a regulator".
Italy left the nuclear energy sector after a 1987 referendum in
the wake of the Chernobyl disaster.
Environmentalists and climate activists are cautiously in favour
of the new generation power plants' role in aiding the
transition from fossil fuels.
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