Garigliano. Three thousand cubic meters of radioactive waste, half of which is medium and high radioactivity: silence from the Government. But Sogin is thinking of building a third waste storage facility on the site. The Garigliano nuclear power plant, despite the recent removal by Sogin of a piece of the reactor, is an area that still needs to be completely reclaimed. There are still three thousand cubic meters of radioactive waste, almost half of which is medium and high radioactivity. The position of the plant itself is also a source of concern: on the mouth of the river of the same name. The inertia of the institutions and bureaucratic delays only lengthen the times that are now biblical: more than 30 years have passed since the referendum on nuclear power. Sogin, a company of the Ministry of Economy and Finance that is in charge of dismantling the facility, is completely paralyzed because the national site for the storage of contaminated facilities is still a pipe dream. But in the meantime, Sogin is preparing to build a third storage site on the Garigliano site, which is hotly contested by environmentalists who fear the effects on citizens' health. For the moment, the institutions are silent.
Gustavo Gentile
Article published on November 27, 2018 - 14:45
