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ROME (AP) \u2014 Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster<\/a> spewed radiation across Europe and turned Italy off nuclear power, Premier Giorgia Meloni<\/a> \u2019s government is laying the groundwork to bring it back as the country seeks to improve its energy security.<\/p>\n

The government is counting on a new generation of Italians who see nuclear power as a source of low-carbon electricity, a tool to help fight climate change and a way to strengthen stable energy supplies amid shocks from the Ukraine<\/a> and Iran<\/a> wars.<\/p>\n

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