The mobilization in favor of nuclear power starts from Turin. The G7 on climate and energy opens with a joint declaration from the industrialists who, in Europe, deal with the entire nuclear energy production chain. And they call for “coherent long-term policies to allow the extension of the operational life of existing reactors and facilitate the construction of new ones”.
The focus of the event is Stefano Buono, who has chosen a building in via Fanti for the new headquarters of NewCleoincreasingly expanding: it will host two hundred people who work for the startup that promises the construction of clean mini reactors. An event organized at the Nuovola Lavazza, while the B7 entrepreneurs led by Emma Marcegaglia met at the Unione Industriali. The aim is to underline that public and private must be partners to overcome the challenges that energy and environmental transitions impose.
Decarbonizationa topic on which the Italian government is already working, declaring itself ready to say goodbye to coal, “the fossil source that generates the most greenhouse gas emissions” claims the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin which underlines the need to close “the Civitavecchia and Brindisi power plants starting tomorrow”. And then it opens up to “new nuclear energy”, as “part of the mix to provide the continuity that renewables are unable to provide”. The minister, and Giorgia Meloni’s government in general, has never made a secret of his desire for a return to “clean” nuclear power, the fourth generation. Pichetto himself announces the ministry’s membership of the European Industrial Alliance on SMRs, small modular reactors, «to confirm the support of the country system and give a concrete signal of interest in the development of new cutting-edge technologies». Even because, the minister claims, “we cannot think of filling the country with photovoltaic panels and wind turbines everywhere” because there is a landscape to defend.
An idea that also strengthens the deputy minister for the environment and energy safety, Vannia Gava: «We need to overcome ideology with a renewed agenda, in which the competitiveness of the industry becomes the priority again».
Renato Mazzoncini (A2A) he underlines how in a market that «has become oversized with renewables, we must ensure that any new investments, including nuclear, do not cannibalize each other». For Nicola Monti (Edison) «with the new technologies that are advancing, with the new generation mini reactors it is necessary to build a common technological platform, which has the right economies of scale». While Nicola Lanzetta (Enel) underlines that “it could be one of the tools that allows us to complete the energy transition”.
«The competitiveness of industries must be a collective concern for the G7″, recalls Marcegaglia. On the challenges of the green transition, the president poses 8 points of analysis, from industrial policies shared in Europe, to the containment of energy prices, from support for research “without ideology” to the need for technological neutrality, to the issue of financial instruments.
Elements also remembered by the president of Confindustria Piemonte, Marco Gaywho concludes: «We support technological neutrality, because it allows companies to be able to compete, as well as being able to invest in development trajectories».
