ROME (ITALPRESS) – “In the next decade, the demand for energy is set to explode, even with artificial intelligence. According to analysts, by 2050 demand will have doubled. I don’t think there is any other neutral tool that gives continuity more than nuclear power.” Environment Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said this at the sixth edition of “The Young Hope” School being held in Rome. “The technological development of nuclear power when there will be products such as small reactors will also have to foresee the authorization pathway of plants and their type such as fusion,” he added. “The difference between the nuclear model of 50 years ago, the one of the referendum, and the one proposed today is enormous. In the G20 on energy that starts now it will be about the challenge revolving around the sources that we have to govern around the World. It will be about getting everybody to agree on nuclear power. One of the issues that I will bring up that I have already addressed will be biofuels, which is a national interest for us who are converting our refineries with a shift on decarbonization with very low emissions. “According to the minister, “In the ecological and energy transition, the future is an opportunity and should not be evaluated as a cost and sacrifice. Firm on the final goals, the question is on the paths that can and must be different in the European Union. We are a country immersed in the Mediterranean that has made the choice not to have nuclear power, that does not have the budget of Germany that has chosen to have development with photovoltaics. To compete,” he concluded, “we must act on all fronts and grow with renewables.
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