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The Energy Decree, recently approved by the Council of Ministers, has opened up the self-nomination of Municipalities as a potential site for the construction of the National Nuclear Waste Repository, an area of ​​95 thousand cubic meters where radioactive waste will be stored.In this way, local authorities not included in the national charter of potentially suitable areas (the CNAPI, never made public, despite having been ready for months) could also offer themselves for the position.Environment Minister Pichetto Fratin defined it as a decision "necessary to speed up the process of identifying an area that the country has a strong need for".Overall, the measure has caused quite a stir discontent and perplexity, since it actually goes beyond the path which, in recent years, has led to the identification of dozens of sites potentially suitable for hosting waste on the basis of rigid technical-scientific criteria.Yet, in this scenario, the first self-nomination has...