Sogin, this is why the EU Commission wanders Italy
The EU rejects the Italian management of nuclear waste. Sogin's role
The EU Commission rejects Italy on the management of nuclear waste. A blow that – indirectly – affects Sogin, the state company responsible for the dismantling of Italian nuclear plants and for the management and safety of radioactive waste produced by industrial, research and nuclear medicine activities.
In fact, a letter of formal notice has been sent to Italy from Brussels for not having adopted a program that complies with EU requirements in the management of radioactive waste. All the details.
THE LETTER OF CONSTITUTION IN ARRIVAL
The European Commission has sent letters of formal notice to Austria , Croatia and Italy for "not having adopted a national program for the management of radioactive waste in compliance with the requirements of the spent fuel and radioactive waste directive (Directive 2011/70 Euratom of Council) ”, explained the Commission itself last Friday.
SOGIN MOUTH
In practice, the EU also receives an indirect rejection of the work of Sogin, "responsible for the decommissioning of Italian nuclear plants and the management of radioactive waste".
Radioactive waste generated from the production of electricity in nuclear power plants, but also from the non-energy use of radioactive materials for medical, research, industrial and agricultural purposes.
EU DIRECTIVE TO BE RECEIVED WITHIN
The European Union has established a Community framework whereby Member States are obliged to handle spent fuel and radioactive waste responsibly and safely, in order to ensure a high level of safety and avoid imposing undue burdens on future generations.
“Member States were required to transpose the directive by 23 August 2013 and to notify their national programs for the first time to the Commission by 23 August 2015,” the Commission explains in a note.
Italy, together with Austria and Croatia, evidently did not.
DEBATE IN ITALY
In Italy the debate continues on the construction of a national warehouse to be built on the basis of international standards. A deposit that nobody wants. According to the latest report of the National Inspectorate for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ISIN), updated to December 2017, the total amount of radioactive waste present in nuclear installations, including those generated by activities of medical and industrial origin, is about 30 thousand cubic meters. The waste generated by the dismantling is mainly of low or very low (radioactive) activity but the waste deriving from medical and industrial applications will continue to be produced, for which ISIN estimates an annual production of about 300 cubic meters.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/energia/sogin-ecco-perche-la-commissione-ue-bacchetta-litalia/ on Mon, 02 Nov 2020 06:30:54 +0000.