Italy’s state-owned nuclear decommissioning company Sogin has launched a tender for the dismantling of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) and internals of the Garigliano nuclear power station in the south of the country.
Sogin said the tender, valued at about €36m ($39m), is for the segmentation and extraction of the components and the RPV, which are heavily contaminated, to take place under water, which provides shielding for workers.
Sogin said that with the dismantling of the vessel, which will end in 2027, it has entered the final phase of the decommissioning of Garigliano.