Edison SpA wants to build as many as 10 nuclear plants at a cost of 40 billion euros ($63 billion) if Italy ends a mortatorium, Chairman Umberto Quadrino told daily la Repubblica.
A nuclear power plant could be completed by 2019, Quadrino was quoted as saying. Italy's second-largest power utility doesn't want state aid to fund the construction of the facilities and plans to raise the cash from investors, Quadrino told the newspaper.
Italians in 1987 voted for a moratorium on nuclear power following the Chernobyl disaster.
