'The 'new nuclear power' is a resource for combating climate change: the government is studying it and evaluating it". This was stated by Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, adding that the 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 Pichetto 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 - and 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".