first installations in four years. «They will guarantee 20% of national energy»

Nuclear power officially enters the Italian energy strategy. And it aims, when fully operational, to have a contribution of around 20% in the country’s energy mix which will rest mainly on renewables. Italy could have, according to the projections on the government table today, at least 15 mini-reactors capable of supporting and integrating with the supply chain, the world of utilities and above all with energy-intensive companies, which today suffer most of all from the costs of ‘power. What is imagined is a world, no longer so distant, beyond 2030 in which an industrial district will be able to decide to build its own mini-reactor, little more than a container in size, at affordable costs and with maximum safety.

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Confirming that energy production with mini-reactors will enter black and white for the first time complete with scenarios to 2030 and outlook to 2050 in the definitive National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (Pniec) was the Minister of the Environment and energy security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin. The minister himself will send the final document of the Plan to Brussels by June. This is a projection still in progress, of course, but “it will also report scenario analyzes containing a possible share of energy produced from nuclear sources in the period 2030-2050”, confirmed Pichetto Fratin in recent days, with reference to the comparison with the mix current energy. This is dealt with by one of the seven dedicated working groups of the National Platform for Sustainable Nuclear Energy coordinated by Mase with the support of Enea and Rse, which the minister asked to bring forward its scenario forecasts to the next few weeks, with respect to the deadline of September.

THE RULES

It will take 3, at most 4 years. Or perhaps even less if nuclear technology runs at the same surprising pace as artificial intelligence. Then from the first prototypes in circulation in Europe we will move on to the industrial-based construction of the famous advanced third generation mini-reactors, the Small Modular Reactors (SMR) and the fourth generation ones, the “Advanced Modular Reactors” (AMR) immediately after 2030. The “Small Modular Reactor” SMRs are small-medium sized. They integrate well with a well-developed electricity grid like the European one and can support the widespread diffusion of renewables which, being non-programmable, require the support of a constant source. Nuclear can therefore replace, at least in part, gas. Being small in size and modular, mini-reactors drastically reduce construction times and initial investments.
Before a reactor can be built in Italy, however, a system of “nuclear” rules is needed, like those that exist today in France and other countries, to authorize and verify the commissioning of the plants. The rules will arrive within the legislature, the minister assured Radio24. On small modular reactors, Pichetto continued, «in Italy we can count on Newcleo, a cutting-edge company because it works on lead (molten lead cooling, which is safer), while other companies abroad still work on water, and uses Enea patents. The testing of the SMR boxes will take place in Brasimone. While on fusion energy, for 2050, we are preparing the inverter for the Iter plant in France in Frascati.” Italy is late but back on track.

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