Italy Looks to Revive Its Nuclear Power Industry

Italy’s government on Friday approved a proposal to begin drafting a series of laws that would ultimately lead to Italy’s return to nuclear power generation after more than four decades. Italy halted nuclear reactors after a referendum in 1987 following the Chernobyl disaster a year earlier. In 2011, Italians rejected again the use of nuclear power in yet another referendum. But Italy’s current government led by Giorgia Meloni said last year that it plans to adopt legislation to return to nuclear power with the latest…