October 10, 2024 15:30 GMT
POWER: Italy Eyes Westinghouse, EdF For New Nuclear Power Plants
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Italy is looking at Westinghouse and EdF for partners for a state-backed firm to build new nuclear power plants in Italy, sources told Reuters.
- Italy plans to present a draft law to resume nuclear energy production by year-end, Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said this week.
- The minister has appointed a legal expert to explore how new nuclear technologies, SMRs and advanced modular reactors (AMRs), could be exempt from the existing ban to support the government's green energy transition.
- The government is seeking to create a new entity with a foreign technological partnership for the start of nuclear production in Italy, Industry Minister Adolfo Urso said previously.
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