The ENEA CETRA facility in the context of the nuclear waste management

ENEA is the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, a public body aimed at research, technological innovation and the provision of advanced services to enterprises, public administration and citizens in the sectors of energy, the environment and sustainable economic development Since its very foundation, ENEA performs R&D on nuclear fission. At present, activities are mainly focused on research and development of advanced nuclear systems for innovative production plants and for medium-, long-term problem solving related to both the availability of fuel resources and reducing long-life radioactive wastes. Still within nuclear fission, ENEA plays an important role for: qualification of nuclear components and systems; ionizing radiation metrology; radiation protection. ENEA hosts the National Contact Point for the transport of radioactive materials and the Integrated Service for the management of non-electro-nuclear radioactive waste. ENEA is a member of ARIUS and ERDO - Working Group The CETRA is the facility of the Nuclear Material Characterization Laboratory and Nuclear Waste Management dedicated to the researches on encapsulation technologies for nuclear wastes. The CETRA was the Italian national reference laboratory for the qualification and characterization of cement matrices for the encapsulation of nuclear waste according to the Italian Technical Guide n° 26 ENEA DISP (G.T. 26).