As of 2023, Italy is one of only three countries, along with Lithuania and Germany, that completely phased out nuclear power for electricity generation after having operational reactors.

Jan 27, 2025 · Italy plans to finalize its plans and legislation for a return to nuclear power by 2027. This decision was announced by Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Italy's Minister of Energy Security and Environment, in an interview with Il Sole 24 Ore.The right-wing government led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni believes small modular reactors (SMRs) and advanced modular reactors can help decarbonize Italy's ...

Jan 23, 2025 · Italy aims to finalise by the end of 2027 a plan allowing the use of nuclear power again after it was banned almost 40 years ago, Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said in an interview ...

1 day ago · The initiative aligns with Italy’s strategic shift in energy policy under the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, which is considering reviving its dormant nuclear sector. Despite the prohibition of nuclear power plants following referendums in 1987 and 2011, Italy is now looking to establish a strategy by the end of 2027 to ...

Jan 24, 2025 · In September 2024, Fratin expressed Italy’s intention to draft legislation enabling these new technologies by early 2025 at the latest, with hopes for parliamentary approval within the same year. By incorporating nuclear power into at least 11% of its energy mix, Italy could save €17bn ($17.7bn) in decarbonising costs by 2050.

Sep 13, 2024 · Italy's environment minister, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, announced plans to introduce new regulations by the end of the year to allow the use of nuclear technologies in the country, aiming to...

Sep 7, 2024 · Italy plans to draft, by early 2025, rules to allow the use of new nuclear power technologies, the energy minister said on Saturday, signalling a potential reversal of the country's current...

Oct 7, 2024 · Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Energy and Climate Plan estimates that, if all plans for the nuclear revival were to proceed, nuclear power could make up 11% of the country’s domestic energy demand by 2050.

1 day ago · U.S. energy group Westinghouse proposed using decommissioned nuclear sites in Italy for the installation of small modular reactors, with the aim to start construction by 2030, a company official ...

Jul 14, 2024 · Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing government is planning to reintroduce nuclear energy 35 years after Italy shut down its last atomic plant, in a bid to lower the country’s carbon...