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Italian Parliament Votes to Approve Meloni Government's Nuclear Power Restart Plan
Italy's upper parliamentary chamber, the Senate (Senato della Repubblica), formally voted on Wednesday to approve the government's statutory plan to restart nuclear power generation, marking a substantive step back toward the nuclear energy camp nearly four decades after the country shut down all nuclear reactors within its borders in 1987 following an anti-nuclear referendum (Referendum) triggered by the Chernobyl accident. The government of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is vigorously promoting the deployment of Advanced Modular Reactors (AMRs), aiming to break the historical ban through technological upgrades and a substantial increase in safety margins, provide stable clean energy for deep decarbonization of energy-intensive industries, and at the same time...
2026-09-24
Italy may restart nuclear power generation by 2035
Italian Minister of Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin stated that the Italian government does not rule out the possibility of restarting domestic nuclear power generation by 2035. If mass production of nuclear reactors begins by the end of this decade, their construction time could be shortened to three to four years. This might allow Italy to begin generating electricity in 2034 or 2035. The bill aims to establish the legal framework needed for Italy to build new nuclear reactors. Since the referendum held after the 1987 Chernobyl nuclear accident and the closure of the last nuclear power plants in 1990, Italy has consistently prohibited nuclear energy. However, geopolitical uncertain...
2026-09-20