Historical Evaluation of the Transport of Radioactive Materials in Italy

Relevant duty of a Competent Authority is to verify that the transport of radioactive material is carried out in compliance with national laws , both based on IAEA and international Regulation. Safety assessment and risk analysis and survey actions are necessary to carry out this duty; therefore it is essential to have data regarding domestic shipments of radioactive materials. In Italy the transport of radioactive material is carried out by authorised carriers. The authorisation is issued by the Minister of Industry together with the Minister of Transport An item , in the authorisation decree, obliges the carrier to send to the Competent Authority, on three months bases, data of the shipments carried out according to a specific format. The above mentioned rules, together with \" ad hoc surveys campaign \" carried out in the most important traffic places (railway stations and airports), allow the Competent Authority to have a large number of data that permitted to realise a TRANSPORT DATA-BANK .