The mayor of Trino and the idea of ​​the nuclear waste storage deal:«It is worth 1 billion and will bring 4 thousand jobs»

«I have every interest in staying here to raise my children who deserve a better future», says Daniele Pane.But after the self-nomination, the committee for the No to deposits was already born in the village

The city of Trino Vercellese, on the Monferrato hills, where what remains of Italian nuclear power is located, the Saluggia plant, is the first self-candidate to host the future national nuclear waste repository.The mayor of Fratelli d'Italia, Daniele Pane, confirmed to Corriere della Sera to have formalized his decision.«Between Trino and Saluggia we hold 80 percent of Italian radioactivity.If others continue to always say no, it is more convenient for everyone to have a definitive destination rather than maintaining a status quo that damages us, also to avoid environmental disasters."Bread has never made a secret of what it is ready to welcome the system.Last December 13th the government - after having introduced a rule in the Energy decree which allows self-nomination by municipalities and military sites - published thelist of the 51 areas considered suitable to accommodate the plant which will have to host the 78 thousand cubic meters of low and medium intensity radioactive waste and temporarily store 17 thousand high intensity ones.The city of Trino, which was not on the list of Municipalities, thus advanced its self-nomination.Now the technicians of Mase and Sogin will start a re-evaluation of the territory in order to verify its possible suitability.«Trino was excluded because part of our municipality is along the Po river – underlines the mayor -.But it is only a part of the municipal territory, which obviously would not be interested in hosting the depot.Abroad there are tenders to host these deposits, there are very crowded tenders, while here in Italy 60 million euros are paid every year between fines and infringement procedures for failure to secure the waste, and a self-nomination such as ours causes a sensation."For the mayor of the municipality of around six thousand inhabitants, the structure would have a positive economic impact on the area:«In addition to the various state incentives – he continues –, it is worth one billion euros and would offer 4 thousand jobs for its construction, to which another 700 places would be added to the structure built for its management.I have every interest in staying in Trino, to raise my two children here who deserve a better future."

The protests

Instead, the Tri-No committee, made up of around 600 citizens, is protesting against self-nomination:«The mayor and his team have taken on the historic responsibility of getting Trino on the train whose only stop will be the single repository for radioactive waste in this area:a territory, we repeat, not suitable.A presence – he concludes – that will weigh on us, but above all on many generations after ours, for hundreds and hundreds of years."