(ANSA) - ROME, 05 JAN - The green light has arrived, with the clearance of the Ministry of Development and the Ministry of the Environment, to Sogin for the publication of the Cartanazionale of potentially suitable areas (Cnapi), the preliminary project and related documents for the construction of the national radioactive waste depot that will make it possible to permanently preserve Italian low and medium activity radioactive waste.
Sogin is the state-owned company responsible for the dismantling of Italian nuclear plants and for the management and safety of radioactive waste.
There are 67 potentially suitable places (they are not all equivalent to each other but have different degrees of priority depending on their characteristics) to host the national depository of radioactive waste identified in seven regions: Piedmont, Tuscany, Lazio, Puglia, Basilicata, Sardinia and Sicily.
The general table attached to the CNAPI also indicates the municipalities involved in the seven regions.
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