Italy is planning to revive its use of nuclear energy after a 35-year-long hiatus, according to Italian Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, who revealed fresh details of the plan to the Financial Times on July 14, a little more than a week after he said at a conference in Milan, Italy, that an evaluation process had begun on the renewed role of nuclear power in the country’s energy mix.
Nuclear energy is a controversial issue in Italy, which shut down its last atomic plant 35 years ago and where citizens voted in a 2011 referendum against reviving a national nuclear program after Japan’s Fukushima disaster.
