Istituto Superiore per la Protezione
e la Ricerca Ambientale

Cerca

September

Specification about ISPRA's assessment of the environmental damage caused by the sinking of Costa Concordia

With reference to some articles published today, it should be noted that ISPRA has carried out the assessment of environmental damage in March 2013, based on a few certain data available so far. Meanwhile, the Institute is collecting all the data deriving from the monitoring activity carried out continuously over the area. Now that the wreck was placed on axis, in the coming months it will be possible to access to the seabed and collect additional qualitative and quantitative data that will allow to update the evaluation report addressing the environmental damage. The final evaluation will in any case be performed only when the wreck of the Costa Concordia will be definitively removed from the waters of the island of Giglio, together with all the relative infrastructures.

ISPRA informative note about the development of technical criteria for localization of a national deposit of radioactive waste

ISPRA has prepared a first draft of the document about technical criteria for localization of a national deposit of radioactive waste. It is also necessary, in line with international practices in the nuclear sector, a technical comparison with the Nuclear Safety Authority of countries that have already implemented similar structures, as well as to present these criteria to the international review by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).