
The Minister of the Environment announces the implementing decrees by the end of the year to complete the legal framework
Environment Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin reiterated the government's commitment to nuclear power as a future energy source, announcing the arrival of the implementing decrees by the end of the year to define the regulatory framework.
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Italy currently integrates its energy mix with nuclear energy imports from France and Slovenia.
"Today we make 40% of the gas, 40% renewables and we import the rest from France and Slovenia, and the source is nuclear. The government has made the choice for the future, that of nuclear power. They say: 'it will arrive in 15 years'. Yes, but if we don't start today it will never arrive. This is the basic fact. By the end of the year, it is a commitment from the prime minister which is a double commitment otherwise I'll be damned, the implementing decrees will arrive to complete the picture legal".
This was said by the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, at the conference 'The Italian party, from the DC to Berlusconi and Meloni', underway in Saint Vincent.
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Issuance of implementing decrees on nuclear power by the end of the year.
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