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Paris (AFP) March 8, 2010 Italy should generate a quarter of its electricity with nuclear power after recently overturning a ban on reactors, the head of energy giant Enel said on Monday at a major conference in Paris. "I propose that 25 percent of Italy's energy be generated with nuclear power," Enel chief executive Fulvio Conti said. The Italian government last month approved a decree setting out the procedure for restarting nuclear power, which was banned by a 1987 referendum. Conti pointed out that 18 percent of the electricity imported by Italy was already nuclear-generated, coming mainly from France. France currently covers around 75 percent of its electricity needs with nuclear power -- the highest proportion of any economy in the world. French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday urged international financial bodies to fund a new era of global nuclear power and talked up France's own technology at a conference attended by delegates from 60 countries. Italy's ban was enacted following a nuclear meltdown in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986 that sent highly radioactive fallout over large areas of Europe. The country's four nuclear plants operating at the time were shut down.
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Sarkozy lobbies for nuclear powerParis (UPI) Mar 8, 2009 French President Nicolas Sarkozy Monday urged the world to turn to nuclear power as his country's industry aims to supply the global boom for the energy source. Welcoming the attendees of an international energy conference in Paris, Sarkozy said the world needed nuclear power to fight climate change. He added the technology should become accessible also to developing countries, ... read more |
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