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Italy clears path for nuclear power revival

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Italy reverses a decades-old atomic energy ban as the Senate passes legislation to revive nuclear power.

The Italian Senate has given final approval to a government-backed law that clears the path for the country to revive nuclear energy generation. The vote marks a reversal of a decades-long ban following the Chernobyl disaster and subsequent referendums. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hailed the legislative victory as a promised milestone fulfilled.

The measure cleared the upper house with eighty-one votes in favour and fifty-one against, alongside seven abstentions.
The legislation paves the way for the deployment of a new generation of nuclear reactors.
Italy previously abandoned atomic energy nearly four decades ago following public referendums prompted by the Chernobyl disaster.

By the numbers

81votes in favour

51votes against

7abstentions

Why it matters

Italy shut down its nuclear power plants following a 1987 referendum held in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, making this legislation a major shift in the nation's energy policy.

What outlets agree on

All outlets agree that the Italian Senate has passed a government-sponsored law enabling the return of nuclear energy generation nearly forty years after the country abandoned it.

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