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: Saluda, ONE YEAR OLD CONTROVERSY

RUBBIA, a possible world catastrophe
Rome, August 29 - (Adnkronos) - Tanks 'expired', geographical location
at risk, slow start-up time and waste
Security experts split on the technology. The controversy over the Saluda waste
of the roots of time. Cosi 'in 2001
a committee report 'rap' Enea, Ente
for New Technologies, Energy and Environment led by Carlo Rubbia
for the management of nuclear sites Vercelli,''one of the most '
dangerous of Italy'''. More than 1500 m / c
irradiated fuel in the system of Eurex, aged 35 years, and 1250 m / c deposit for
Avogadro still waiting
sending abroad of radioactive material for reprocessing. And in the middle of the Dora Baltea
and an aqueduct that supplies much of the Piedmont.
Just the flooding of Dora in 2000 had highlighted the
''inaffidabilita 'structural'' Eurex plants and Avogadro,
used for reprocessing and storage of radioactive material
, and now inactive, pending final action for
made safe. ''A possible global catastrophe
''he warned, then the Nobel Prize Rubbia
Commissioner Enea. Above all, the real problem was the Eurex
because of the presence of liquid in her womb
highly radioactive and in close contact with the ground water. A delicate situation seen
the old system, due
technique in 2005.



Since '97 Enea had tried to remedy with
the initiation of a process of experimentation for the construction of a new plant
solidification of the irradiated fuel,
through vitrification. The constant references to procedures
implementation forced the Commission to express''strong disagreement with the policy
Enea to offer solutions
not yet experienced ', and to require the company to solidify liquid waste
high activity' within 2005. Meanwhile
the plant was taken over by Sogin of General Carlo Jean
.
But the controversy had begun earlier. From 87, to coincide with the referendum on nuclear power, associations and trade unions organized
protest actions and awareness,
also worried by the national authorizing the discharge of radioactive substances in the Dora
from normal activities
'facilities. In 88 an agreement was signed with the British BNFL
to transfer solid waste to the Avogadro
Sellafield for treatment. The 13 monthly trips convoys
'Blind' and escorted, but 'can not start before 2002 to
security problems. Ready protests from environmentalists,
concerned about the danger of transportation and
a procedure that is called''politics''of the facade, since the return of materials in Italy
and the fact that 50% of the fuel will remain radioactive
'still in the tanks of Avogadro.