'The 'new nuclear power' is a resource for combating climate change: the government is studying it and evaluating it' Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Minister of the Environment and Energy Security. European average is 20% of production of energy from nuclear power, "with 100 active rectors and others in construction" "In some countries it reaches 50% - adds Pichetti Fratin speaking via video link at the conference 'Italian nuclear power in the challenge to climate change' organized by Weeks at the University of Pavia.
"The EU policies have all been based on the, I would say, ideological replacement of hydrocarbons with electricity, which benefits some countries, above all France, which depend much less in prices on geopolitical turbulence", adds Fratin. 'The'new nuclear power" is aresource for combatingClimate change: the government is studying it and evaluating it"