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Nuclear waste the Region “tears” the map of Rome: “Not here”

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Catania. Now it’s no longer a “not in my garden!” belly screamed. But a report of 153 pages, with the work of experts of different profiles, with which the Region says no to nuclear waste in Sicily. Challenging the national government, which had located four storage sites, among the 67 planned throughout Italy, in Trapani, in Calatafimi-Segesta, between Petralia Sottana and Castellana Sicula and in Butera.

The working group, chaired by the regional councilor for the Territory, Toto Cordaro, and made up of university professors and mayors, arrived at results that “make it possible to decisively challenge the assessment of Sogin (the state company responsible for the dismantling of nuclear power plants and the management and safety of radioactive waste, ed) in order to exclude the 4 Sicilian sites from the CNAPI “, or the National Charter of potentially suitable areas.

For sites “Cl 18” (Butera), “Pa 15” (Castellana Sicula), “Tp 9” (Calatafimi-Segesta) and “Tp 11” (Trapani), numerous of the 15 “exclusion criteria” provided for by the national technical guide. And in particular: the “high seismicity” (certified by the Ingv of Catania), the “geomorphological and / or hydraulic risk and / or hazard of any degree and river belts” (with level 3 on a scale with a maximum of 4 ), the «presence of alluvial deposits of the Holocene age», but also «slopes with an average slope greater than 10%» and «piezometric levels emerging or which, in any case, may interfere with the foundation structures of the deposit». And not only. Among the impeding criteria, in addition to the “meteo-climatic conditions” and the “hydrogeological parameters”, also the fact that the sites “are not at an adequate distance from inhabited centers” and the presence of “agricultural productions of particular quality and typicality and places of archaeological and historical interest “and finally the” availability of primary communication routes and transport infrastructures “, since the” Sicilian infrastructure system is an extremely penalizing factor compared to the location “of a storage center, with difficulties (and risks) in transport of waste. In the case of Trapani there is also the “presence of significant or strategic critical infrastructures” such as the Montescuro Ovest aqueduct.

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Upstream, according to the conclusions of the working group of the Region, there would also be procedural problems. The first is the “non-submission of Cnapi to Vas”, or the Strategic Environmental Assessment. According to the experts, a step that had to be “carried out before the approval of the plan” by the government, “or in any case during its preparation, in order to consider ex ante the possible impacts and on the basis of these to orient the planning choices”. The Region also disputes an “irrationality in the suitability order” of the map of the storage centers, based on Sogin’s excessive “discretion” especially on the “weight” of the individual choice parameters.

But the game has only just begun. «With indisputable arguments we demonstrate how Sicily cannot and should not be included in any list of possible sites. We are only applying to host tourists “, states governor Nello Musumeci, claiming that” we have also complied with this commitment within the timeframe requested by Rome “. And the commissioner Cordaro relaunches: «Once the technical-scientific phase is closed and the reports have been sent to Palazzo Chigi, the second phase begins, that of the political choice: we will never allow Sicily to become the site of nuclear landfills. The Musumeci government will make the barricades and now we have more than solid reasons that make us confident for the achievement of the objective ».

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