Italy to return to nuke after Chernobyl

Italy to return to nuke after Chernobyl

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The government is to consider "interventions" in Italian's electricity bills concerning nuclear power, Environment and Energy Security Minister Gilberto Pichetto Frattin said, CE Report quotes ANSA.

Premier Giorgia Meloni's government has said Rome is to return to nuclear power after a post-Chernobyl referendum abandoned it, but only via small, private nuclear reactors operated by the private sector with government help.

"There is no energy source that is not integrated into the tariff in Italy, Pichettio told Italian TV.

"We intervene on all energy production, from thermal power plants to wind power, photovoltaic, hydroelectric and geothermal.

"When there is a tool for evaluating the cost of energy production from nuclear, the State will evaluate how much to integrate into the tariff, in the same way it is doing with photovoltaic or wind power, to create the greatest possible advantage for the country".

The minister also said that if gas prices don't fall from their current high levels, "we will have to intervene".

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