The new nuclear reactors in Italy ready around 2030

“By now research and experimentation are leading to creating variable power reactors, from smaller to slightly larger ones”. The Minister of the Environment and Energy Safety Gilberto Pichetto, a guest of Bruno Vespa at five minutes, said this, after the launching today on the CDM of the delegation of nuclear power.

“There are those of the third generation with water cooling and those with lead cooling that use the waste of what were the old central”, explains the minister. “The times planned by all analysts are the end of this decade or the beginning of the next” for the birth of the first reactors, said Pichetto. Nuclear fusion? For that “it is estimated from twenty to thirty years. That is Eldorado and it will be the next step. It will be the best source”, underlines the owner of the Mase.

“We do not foresee a number of fixed systems, it can be variable and also of private initiative – explained the minister – the rules will be like those that are now for photovoltaics, but much more rigid and with guarantees on the sites”.

The first positive effects on the bills of the introduction of the new nuclear reactors will be seen “in the next decade, the estimate is to reach the prices of bills on French and Spanish level – he added – the new reactors are safe and are considered by analysts also very convenient”, concluded Pichetto.