Even before the publication of the list, some municipalities of Sardinia, Piedmont and other regions made it known that there, those nuclear waste would not have liked them at all. It was predictable: for six years we have been waiting for a list of possible areas in which Italy will have to build the National Repository of radioactive waste, the ones that no one would want. Yet somewhere, under penalty of sanctions for Italy which at the moment has sent part of its waste abroad, Italian radioactive waste (especially at low and medium intensity) will have to end. So in the night, for the first time in six years, the list of Italian areas identified as those that could potentially host the National Repository of Italian radioactive waste was finally published by Sogin (state company in charge of the decommissioning of nuclear plants). These are 67 areas that meet 25 criteria established five years ago and reported in the CNAPI, the map of potentially suitable areas. A map has also been published, which can be found on the Depositonazionale.it website, to make it even clearer which will be the 8 large possible areas and the provinces involved. Here they are.
PIEDMONT – 8 areas between the provinces of Turin and Alessandria (Municipalities of Caluso, Mazzè, Rondissone, Carmagnola, Alessandria, Qu argento, Bosco Marengo and so on)
TUSCANY-LAZIO – 24 areas between the provinces of Siena, Grosseto and Viterbo (Municipalities of Pienza, Campagnatico, Ischia and Montalto di Castro, Canino, Tuscania, Tarquinia, Vignanello, Gallese, Corchiano)
BASILICATA-PUGLIA – 17 areas between the provinces of Potenza, Matera, Bari, Taranto (municipalities of Genzano, Irsina, Acerenza, Oppido Lucano, Gravina, Altamura, Matera, Laterza, Bernalda, Montalbano, Montescaglioso)
SARDINIA – 14 areas among the areas in the province of Oristano (Siapiccia, Albagiara, Assolo, Usellus, Mogorella, Villa Sant’Antonio, Nuragus, Nurri, Genuri, Setzu, Turri, Pauli Arbarei, Ortacesus, Guasila, Segariu, Villamar, Gergei and others )
SICILY – 4 areas in the provinces of Trapani, Palermo, Caltanissetta (Municipalities of Trapani, Calatafimi, Segesta, Castellana, Petralia, Butera).
The map, updated in detail, is shown on the National Deposit website (https://www.depositonazionale.it/). Italy must be able, according to plan, to start the deposit by 2025. At the moment we are paying to dispose of part of our nuclear waste in Great Britain and France and now, with the green light of the Ministry of Economic Development and the Environment, it is officially restarted the process for the public consultation which after the publication of the suitable areas will lead to a long process for the identification of the one in which the national deposit will be built, which will initially contain 78 thousand cubic meters of low and medium intensity waste and subsequently also 17 thousand cubic meters of high activity (for a maximum of 50 years). The cost per surveyed for the Depot, flanked by a technology park, is 900 million euros.
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