Senator Says Australia Must Act on Nuclear Power as Italy Moves to End Ban

Published on September 17, 2024

National Party Senator Matthew Canavan says Australia should make haste and follow Italy, which is considering lifting its ban on nuclear power production. By early 2025, Italian authorities are considering drafting new laws to allow the use of new nuclear power technology, reversing the country’s current ban. Italy’s Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin of the Georgia Meloni government, announced his team would produce a comprehensive analysis of nuclear and determine what kind of laws would be needed. Senator Canavan, who has strongly advocated for nuclear in Australia, said the move highlights the pressing need for change. “Italy’s move to remove their own nuclear ban shows how out of step we are with the rest of the world in realising that you can’t run an energy network relying on weather-dependent generation like wind and solar,” he told The Epoch Times....

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