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• Italian and British leaders to work on nuclear

  The prime ministers of Italy and the UK held meetings in London yesterday, agreeing to work together on nuclear energy. Both countries have seen dramatic policy changes to come to be among the most pro-nuclear in the world. Posted Sep 11 2008, 11:19 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: New Nuclear Plants, UK, Italy

• Italy to build ship for Russian submarine waste

  Italian state-owned shipbuilder Fincantieri has been awarded a contract to build a ship for the transport of irradiated fuel and radioactive waste derived from Russian nuclear-powered submarines. Posted Aug 04 2008, 11:59 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Russia, Italy, transport of irradiated fuel

• Nuclear cooperation to come with Italy

  Italy could begin a program of nuclear cooperation with Russia following a ministerial meeting in Moscow yesterday. A joint working group on nuclear energy is to be launched at an intergovernmental meeting in October. Posted Jul 29 2008, 09:24 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Italy

• Edison conducting nuclear feasibility study

  [Thomas Financial, 16 July] Italy's Edison will complete a feasibility study on nuclear power generation by the end of the year, according to the company's director of development, Roberto Poti. Edison has previously said the group's next industrial plan could contain some reference to nuclear power development. The company's CEO, Umberto Quadrino has said that if Italy reintroduced nuclear power, the country will need to construct between 10,000 and 15,000 MWe of nuclear capacity. In March, Quadrino said that it would take at least ten years to construct a nuclear power plant in Italy if the country ends its moratorium on nuclear energy. He also said that Edison wants to construct as many as ten nuclear power plants at a cost of €40 billion ($63 billion). A referendum held in 1987 banned the use of nuclear energy in Italy. However, the newly-elected government of President Silvio Berlusconi is planning a new generation of nuclear power plants. Posted Jul 17 2008, 10:49 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Italy

• Italian government set to reintroduce nuclear energy

  The newly-elected Italian government is planning a new generation of nuclear power plants, the minister of economic development Claudio Scajola told a meeting of the Italian employers' association, Confindustria. Posted May 23 2008, 11:03 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Nuclear Energy, Italy

• Energy Solutions' Italian job

  A deal to recycle radioactive waste from Italy at US facilities has led to deep controversy. Interstate administrators are seeking to block the project, while the company involved wants the courts to overrule them. Posted May 13 2008, 12:41 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Radioactive Waste, Italy, Energy Solutions

• 'Italy should build nuclear abroad'

  Italy should build nuclear power plants in countries across the Adriatic Sea, Giulio Tremonti told the Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper. Tremonti could become finance minister if former President Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party is successful in the mid-April general election. Tremonti said Italy has had a 'bizarre political history' after the 1987 referendum he described as: 'Want a new Chernobyl? Yes or no, tick the box' and that political change is slow. In Tremonti's view, all the preconditions are present for joint ventures with nations around the Adriatic Sea (Albania, Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro) which are also short of power, but he would not name prospective partners. Posted Apr 01 2008, 10:36 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Italy

• Edison keen to build new reactors in Italy

  [Bloomberg, Thomson Financial, 18 March] Umberto Quadrino, CEO of Italian utility Edison, said that it would take at least ten years to construct a nuclear power plant in Italy if the country ends its moratorium on nuclear energy. Speaking to La Stampa newspaper, he said: "If we start discussing seriously immediately, we can have the first operating plant in 2019." He noted that the reintroduction of nuclear energy in Italy would require a "strong political leadership and a bipartisan consensus." Quadrino also told La Repubblica newspaper that Edison wants to construct as many as ten nuclear power plants at a cost of €40 billion ($63 billion). He said that Edison would not seek state aid to construct new plants as it would raise funds from investors. A referendum held in 1987 banned the use of nuclear energy in Italy. Posted Mar 18 2008, 01:10 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: New Nuclear Plants, Italy