[en] In the near future some nuclear installations could be decommissioned in Italy. For that reason ENEA (Italian Committee on Nuclear Energy and Alternative sources) is carrying out many R and D activities improving technologies in order to achieve the best dismantling operating conditions for workers, mainly in terms of radiation doses. In that framework we have considered useful to set up a computer program to quickly evaluate the best way to remove many contaminated components from the plant using the appropriate and available technologies. The computer program SMANT has been developed at ENEA and represent the first example in Italy of a computerized method which is intended to support the project staff to evaluate some dismantling scenarios related to the Italian nuclear installations. The program is described

[en] Responsibility for nuclear safety and radiation health protection of the population is entrusted by law to the DISP directorate of the ENEA. Tasks and organization of ENEA/DISP are outlined and the regulating standard design (PUN) is discussed. Research and development in nuclear safety is focused on accident prevention, probabilistic methods and nuclear plant-environment interaction

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[en] On 5 April 1989 the Agency received in respect of the European Atomic Energy Community and Spain the notification required by Article 23(a) of the Agreement of 5 April 1973 between Belgium, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, the European Atomic Energy Community and the Agency, which therefore came into force for Spain on that date

[en] International nuclear energy law, as discussed in this article, is the law relating to the global, peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. The position of nuclear law in the wide realm of law itself as well as the present status of nuclear legislation is assessed. This article also covers the development of international nuclear energy law, from the first nuclear law - the New Zealand Atomic Energy Act of 1945-, the present and the future. National and international organizations concerned with nuclear energy and their contribribution to nuclear law are reviewed

[en] The role of the ENEA-NUCLECO in the management of radioactive waste in Italy is described. In particular the different tasks of the two companies are emphasized. ENEA is mainly involved in the establishment of acceptance criteria, definition of strategies for the management of radwaste, research development, selection, acquisition and qualification of final repositories. NUCLECO, on its own, provides treatment, conditioning and temporary storage of all the wastes produced in Italy and transports them to Casaccia Center, near Rome. Several types of waste are treated by NUCLECO: LLW and MLW arising from medical, research and industrial activities; dry active waste (DAW); large dimension contaminated equipments from decommissioning operations; wastes from nuclear power plants. Different technologies are used for the treatment of such wastes: supercompaction, treatment ofliquid wastes, cementation. The NUCLECO's experiences in the area of spent fuel and in decommissioning of research reactors and laboratories are also described

[en] Measurement and control techniques, applied to industry, have the common aim to increase plant safety, reliability and availability. An industrial monitoring system needs several sensors, whose signals, after elaborating and interpretation, allow one to define the best working conditions; moreover, advanced instrumentation inserted in experimental facilities gives one the possibility to interpret process phenomena and to assess mathematical models. These new systems are able to detect and to process, at highest quality standard, physical parameters from which it is possible to draw more complex information and obtain additional parameters not directly measurable but necessary for a more complete process analysis. In this context the ENEA Experimental Engineering Division of the Thermal Reactor Department has been developing several advanced sensors and innovative systems in its laboratories at the Casaccia Centre (Rome). This article presents the principal results of these measurement methods concerning two-phase flow application. Two sectors are considered: a) innovative probes; b) advanced systems based on signal elaboration

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