Italy’s Infrastructure Minister and head of the right-wing Lega party, which co-rules in Rome, Matteo Salvini, has again spoken out in favor of Italy’s return to nuclear power. “I will work hard on it. Italy could have a nuclear power plant in seven years,” Salvini said on Tuesday.
The issue is controversial in Italy. While the Lega has been campaigning for months for the country’s return to nuclear power, some opposition parties, such as the Five Star Movement, are opposed. Italy is trying to reduce its dependence on foreign countries, especially Russia, for energy supplies.
In 1987, one year after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Italians voted in a referendum to phase out nuclear energy. In 2009, then Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced that he wanted to invest in nuclear energy again, but put his plan on ice after the disaster in Fukushima. In another referendum in 2011, about 94.5 percent of Italians voted against new nuclear power plants.
Source: Krone
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