 The "Cnrn" became an autonomous research entity in 1960, the "Cnen" ("Comitato Nazionale per l'Energia Nucleare", National Committee for Nuclear Energy).During all the 1950s there was a common belief that nuclear energy would have provided within few years, safely and economically, all the energy needed.Italy ordered between 1956 and 1958 3 different reactors from 3 different companies