Italien denkt 35 Jahre nach der Abschaltung des letzten Reaktors über Atomenergie nach

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1. [From the Semafor Flagship newsletter](https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/07/15/2024/semafor-flagship-things-will-likely-not-get-better?utm_campaign=semaforreddit):

   Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni plans to restart the country’s nuclear energy industry, 35 years after the country’s last reactor shut down.

   Italy’s energy minister told the Financial Times the government would introduce legislation to support investment in small modular reactors, which could be operational within 10 years.

   Nuclear energy could make up at least 11% of the country’s electricity mix by 2050 to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and boost clean energy, he said.

   Italy ended its nuclear program after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, but the technology is regaining ground again worldwide: More than 20 countries plan to triple nuclear capacity by midcentury, and uranium prices are up 50% year-on-year.

   [Read the full story here.](https://www.semafor.com/article/07/15/2024/italy-nuclear-energy-industry-after-decades?utm_campaign=semaforreddit)

2. If properly regulated nuclear energy is a safe and relatively clean power source.

3. Doesn’t Italy have something against nuclearl in their constitution? Or was it just in Austria.

   Never mind, its about “small reactors” the non-existing tech that for some reason right wing really likes. Here in Poland PiS was also braging about investing in it. The public company was closed and money stolen.

4. Anti-nuclear movement will be seen as one of the stupidest things about our age. And given that it is our age that is really saying something.

5. Lol, good luck with that. Catching up, planning it, getting the permits and constructing it is going to take decades. Also the exterior cooling loop will have to be dry cooling (which is expensive), because Italy has persistent drought problems, which will only get worse.

6. If you don’t build a nuclear reaction like a muppet its actually alot cleaner and frankly safer than a coal planet

7. Sure, they will start building them just after they finished building the bridge on the Messina strait

8. Abandoning nuclear power by EU countries is so dumb

9. nothing is as scary as an italian nuclear reactor

10. I’m not against nuclear power but I’m not entirely at ease thinking about a nuclear plant built, operated and above all maintained by my fellow countrymen.

11. Don’t they get enough sun and wind in Italy for solar panels and wind turbines?

12. Nuclear power is more efficient, safe, and less waste than ever. But it does take a long time to implement so the sooner the better.

13. Can anyone share what the current 2024 reasons are to be against nuclear power? Outside of storing the used fuel, what are the concerns?

14. Whatever.

    Just don’t let the company that built that bridge in Genoa do the construction.

15. There is no expertise in Italy. At that point build geothermal plants