Rome, (EFE) .- The Italian Government today approved the Council of Ministers for a moratorium suspending for one year its plans to return to nuclear energy production, the government said. The measure, which advanced yesterday by Minister of Economic Development, Paolo Romani, provides for a twelve-month pause in the procedures for installing and identifying nuclear sites in Italy.
Based on this moratorium, the deadline for defining nuclear strategy in Italy is now 24 months from today and not three months from the approval of the project as originally planned, sources said. The conservative government of Silvio Berlusconi and brakes, for now, his intention to produce this type of energy, nuclear alert after the power unleashed in Fukushima, Japan, after the earthquake and tsunami that struck the island last March 11.
The debate on nuclear energy in Italy has been enlivened in recent days after the Government had refused at first to reverse its plans. Italy is a country with high risk of earthquakes and the last of greater intensity, magnitude 5.8, occurred in the central province of L'Aquila on April 6, 2009 and caused 299 dead and thousands homeless.
Before June, a referendum held in Italy to decide on the decree establishing the return to nuclear energy production, already approved in Parliament. Several surveys conducted in recent days indicate that the majority of respondents are opposed to this measure after the events in Japan.
"The moratorium on nuclear energy is a mess, a ploy with which the Government seeks to avoid damage to the referendum ", said the spokesman in the House of Representatives of the opposition Italy of Values (IDV), Massimo Donadi. Italy does not produce nuclear energy since 1987, a year after the Chernobyl accident, the Italians were expressed in a referendum against such plants in the country and the four that existed were closed. 
Based on this moratorium, the deadline for defining nuclear strategy in Italy is now 24 months from today and not three months from the approval of the project as originally planned, sources said. The conservative government of Silvio Berlusconi and brakes, for now, his intention to produce this type of energy, nuclear alert after the power unleashed in Fukushima, Japan, after the earthquake and tsunami that struck the island last March 11.
The debate on nuclear energy in Italy has been enlivened in recent days after the Government had refused at first to reverse its plans. Italy is a country with high risk of earthquakes and the last of greater intensity, magnitude 5.8, occurred in the central province of L'Aquila on April 6, 2009 and caused 299 dead and thousands homeless.
Before June, a referendum held in Italy to decide on the decree establishing the return to nuclear energy production, already approved in Parliament. Several surveys conducted in recent days indicate that the majority of respondents are opposed to this measure after the events in Japan.
"The moratorium on nuclear energy is a mess, a ploy with which the Government seeks to avoid damage to the referendum ", said the spokesman in the House of Representatives of the opposition Italy of Values (IDV), Massimo Donadi. Italy does not produce nuclear energy since 1987, a year after the Chernobyl accident, the Italians were expressed in a referendum against such plants in the country and the four that existed were closed.
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