| Decommissioning in Italy (The Decommissioning and Dismantling of Nuclear Facilities in OECD/NEA Member Countries - Italian National fact sheet by ANPA)
1 - Present Status of the Italian nuclear installations
2 - Legal and Regulatory Framework 3 - The initial strategy 4 - Government strategy change and the role of SOGIN 5 - Current programs and main issues 6 - The management of radioactive wastes and spent fuel 7 - The National repository 8 - Funding
8. Funding
When the Government indicated the new “prompt decommissioning” strategy, SOGIN begun a in-depth re-examination of the NPP’s decommissioning costs, taking account of the new strategy. The assessment indicates an amount of ~ 2.650 MEuro for the total decommissioning of the 4 NPP’s (constant money 2001, including spent fuel and waste management costs), and ~ 860 Millions of Euro for the decommissioning of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities. The main component of the total decommissioning costs is the waste management costs and, in particular, the waste disposal cost which strongly depends on the fees that are required for the disposal in the final repository. In Italy, as the latter has not been designed yet, it is difficult to define a precise figure; about 10 KEuro per cubic meter has been considered. ENEL accumulated funds during NPP’s operation, but the early closure of these plants has prevented the reaching of the total amount of money necessary for the decommissioning. Additional costs will derive from different economic conditions (new assumed discount rate and taxes), from the management costs of a new company (SOGIN), and from the change in strategy (from SAFESTORE to DECON). ENEA has not accumulated any fund for decommissioning. A Decree of the Ministry of the Industry issued on January 26th, 2000 states that funds needed for decommissioning shall be complemented by a levy on the price of the sold kWh. | 
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