ITALIAN GOVERNMENT PUTS BRAKES ON NUCLEAR PROGRAMME
April 1st, 2011
BY LEE ADENDORFF
THE ITALIAN government has put the country's rebooted nuclear programme into a holding pattern, introducing an amendment yesterday that will extend indefinitely a moratorium on the construction of new reactors. The Cabinet has been charged meanwhile with the formulation of a new energy strategy that takes into account "the position of the European Union (EU) and of competent international authorities", which as regards nuclear energy, is of course currently in flux.
A spokesperson for Forum Nucleare Italiano, a non-profit ...
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