Today, in the presence of the Minister for Economic Development, Paolo Romani, and the Russian Minister for Industry and Trade, Viktor Khristenko, there was the launch of the “Rossita”, the vessel tasked with transporting radioactive material from the dismantlement of Russian nuclear submarines, whose name was composed to convey the idea of cooperation between Russia (Rossìa in Russian) and Italy (Ita).Also present at the launch ceremony, organised by Fincantieri at the company’s shipyard in Muggiano-La Spezia, were the CEOs of Fincantieri, Giuseppe Bono, and of Sogin, Giuseppe Nucci. Godmother to the ship was Cristina Brivonese.
The ship will be employed by the Russian company Atomflot – working under the supervision of the Authority for nuclear energy in Moscow “Rosatom” – to transport spent nuclear fuel from facilities in North West Russia (Kola Peninsula and the White Sea) to the port of Murmansk and conditioned radioactive waste to the temporary storage facility of Sayda Bay, where Germany is building a treatment and storage plant worth 300 million Euro.
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