Societa Gestione Impanti Nucleari
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Native name
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Società Gestione Impianti Nucleari |
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| State owned company | |
| Industry | Energy |
| Founded | November 1, 1999 in Rome, Italy |
| Headquarters | Via Marsala, 51/c, Rome, Italy |
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Italy |
| Services | Nuclear decommissioning |
| Revenue | 212 million euros (2014) |
| 2.8 million euros (2014) | |
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Number of employees
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882 (2014) |
| Website | www |
SOGIN (Società Gestione Impianti Nucleari, the Nuclear Plant Management Company) is an Italian state company responsible for nuclear decommissioning as well as management and disposal of radioactive waste produced by industrial, research and medical processes.
Following the 1987 referendums on nuclear power, the Italian government was required to decommission the country's remaining nuclear plants. SOGIN was conceived as the company to undertake this work.
SOGIN was created on 1 November 1999 and took ownership of the closed Caorso, Enrico Fermi, Garigliano, Latina nuclear power plants from ENEL. Initially, SOGIN was created as a part of the ENEL group, but, following the passing of Legislative Decree no. 79, the so-called Bersani decree on 16 March 1999, which marked the beginning of the liberalization of the Italian electricity sector, it was decided to split ENEL. On 3 November 2000, the SOGIN shares were transferred to the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
In 2003, SOGIN also took responsibility decommissioning EUREX, previously owned by ENEA, the ITREC plant in Rotondella and the Casaccia research reactor in Cesano.
On 16 September 2004 SOGIN become a corporate group with the acquisition of 60% of the shares in Nucleco SpA (the remaining 40% being owned by ENEA).
In 2005, SOGIN acquired the nuclear enrichment plant at Bosco Marengo, which it subsequently started decommissioning in 2008.
The nuclear power plant at Trino was the first to be granted a decree for deactivation for decommissioning by the Ministry of Economic Development on 2 August 2012. This was followed by a decree authorising the decommissioning of Gariglian on 26 September 2012. In 2012, the company also started a three-year programme to decontaminate the boxes that had been used to store plutonium-contaminated gloves until 1986.
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