China News Service, January 6th. According to Euronet, citing EUN News Agency, in order to solve the problem of nuclear waste disposal of Italian nuclear power plants, on January 5 local time, the Italian government approved the domestic nuclear waste disposal plan of the Italian Nuclear Energy Equipment Management Company (SOGIN) In the future, 67 nuclear waste storage and burial sites will be built in the seven regions of Italy.
According to reports, on April 26, 1986, after the nuclear reactor rupture at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine, in 1987, Italy held a referendum on the application of nuclear energy, and finally decided by an overwhelming vote that it would not Re-development and gradually abolish nuclear power plants.
According to the referendum decision, the Italian government has successively shut down the only 4 nuclear power plants, and established the Italian Nuclear Energy Equipment Management Company directly led by the Ministry of Economic Development, and the Italian Renewable Power Resource Management Company (GRTN) is responsible for acquiring and dismantling nuclear power plants. Nuclear power plant facilities and processing nuclear waste.
For a long time, the Italian Nuclear Energy Equipment Management Company has been responsible for maintaining shut-down nuclear facilities and protecting nuclear waste from leakage.
As nuclear waste has not been completely processed, it is difficult to dismantle the facilities of the nuclear power plant.
Previously, Italian nuclear energy equipment management companies usually sent nuclear waste to professional institutions abroad for processing.
In 2010, Italy passed legislation to approve the construction of a national radioactive material burial site and stopped the delivery of nuclear waste.
According to the approval of the Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and Environment and the Ministry of Land and Marine Resources and Environmental Protection, in the future, Italian nuclear energy equipment management companies will be located in Piedmont, Tuscany, Lazio, Puglia, Basilicata, In the 7 regions of Sardinia and Sicily, 67 nuclear waste storage and burial sites have been established respectively.
According to the report, the treatment of nuclear waste in Italy is first to put the nuclear waste into a metal container of special material, and then to seal it with a special concrete, and bury it in a landfill that meets certain geological conditions.
The design service life of this nuclear waste treatment plan is 350 years.
According to the plan of the Italian Nuclear Energy Equipment Management Company, the nuclear waste landfill to be built covers an area of 150 hectares, of which 110 hectares will be used to bury nuclear waste and 40 hectares will be used to establish supporting management facilities.
The company will carry out real-time monitoring of these buried nuclear waste for at least 300 years to ensure that there is no radioactive contamination.
(Huang Xin)