The PASCAL project was recently approved for co-financing by the EC within the H2020 Euratom programme. PASCAL, gathering 16 European organizations, is aimed at generating new quality experimental data supporting the pre-licensing processes of the two ESNII heavy-liquid-metal-cooled systems: ALFRED and MYRRHA.

During the month of June 2020 several anomalous measurements of radioactive nuclides have been recorded in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. ENEA has performed isotopic ratios and atmospheric dispersion analyses in order to pinpoint a possible region of origin of the radioactive material.

Thanks to funding from the Emilia Romagna Region, a new Science Park is under development in the outskirts of Bologna to host several scientific and technological agencies and institutions of national and international relevance.

Unexpected methane and CO₂ releases from the ground and noble and conventional gases in groundwater could be favored by stress produced by geological and seismic phenomena.

PERSEO is a full scale facility aimed at studying a new passive decay heat removal system operating in natural circulation.

SIET S.p.A. is a small joint-stock company with public and private capital, ENEA is the main shareholder.