The Chamber of Deputies approved the Pichetto delegation bill on sustainable nuclear power in the Chamber this morning. The measure now passes to the Senate. The government is counting on final approval before the summer break, to issue the implementing decrees by the end of the year. The enabling law aims to give Italy back nuclear legislation.
Pichetto Fratin: “An important step for Italy’s energy future”
«With the approval of the enabling law on sustainable nuclear power in the Chamber, we are taking an important step for Italy’s energy future. Today we have begun to lay the conditions so that the country is ready to adopt sustainable nuclear power when the new technologies, which we are aiming for, are mature and available at the beginning of the next decade”. Thus the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, after the approval in the first reading in the Chamber of the enabling bill on nuclear power. «Sustainable nuclear means more energy security, more decarbonisation, more independence – he added -. In a world where energy demand is destined to grow rapidly, also as a result of artificial intelligence, data centers, industrial and civil electrification, those who are able to produce energy will be freer, stronger and safer. «We want an Italy that is less dependent on foreign countries, with more accessible energy for families and businesses. The bill reaches the homes and businesses of all Italians without distinction. This is why nuclear power is not a political or ecological flag: it is an instrument to be evaluated with seriousness, trust in research and responsibility towards future generations – underlined the minister -. This is a choice of concreteness, not of ideology. A choice of Freedom. More energy security, more independence, more Italy.”