Nuclear Power in Italy(Updated November 2014)
Italy has had four operating nuclear power reactors but shut the last two down following the Chernobyl accident.
Almost 10% of its electricity is now from nuclear power – all imported.
The government intended to have 25% of electricity supplied by nuclear power by 2030, but this prospect was rejected at a referendum in June 2011.
Italy is the only G8 country without its own nuclear power plants, having closed its last reactors in 1990. In 2008, government policy towards nuclear changed and a substantial new nuclear build program was planned. However, in a June 2011 referendum the 2009 legislation setting up arrangements to generate 25% of the country's electricity from nuclear power by 2030 was rejected.
Any interest in those nuclear data bases are dead in Italy as well as in so many other countries. Why encourage interest in a dead technology?