For Lega leader as well as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, Italy's first nuclear reactor could be up and running in 2032, in Milan. "If we overcome the ideological debate, the referendum, in 7-8 years, it means 2032 if we start in 2024, we may turn on the first switch" of a new nuclear reactor, Salvini said while speaking at the fourth edition of iWeek. "I, as a Milanese, would like to have a next-generation reactor in Milan," he added, "because it is clean, programmable energy". "The ideology of FitFor55, of Tesla and of columns, brought last year a +8% use of coal to produce electricity" in Europe, stressed the Vice-President of the Council and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport. "If you add to this that gas in the United States costs 6 times less, analyzing the numbers Italy cannot continue to say no to the intelligent use of nuclear energy," he stressed. On nuclear power, "we need to coordinate, give each other timelines and deadlines" among four ministries: Infrastructure and Transport, Environment and Energy Security, Enterprise and Made in Italy, and Economy, Salvini explained, stressing that the issue must be approached with "little ideology and little irrationality, we need to reason" and we need "a lot of scientific disclosure", especially on television.
|