When in Sardinia there is something that has to go under the radar, there is no mistake: mid-August or New Year's Eve. The state calendar, in those days, has always been circled in red. Collective distraction, between beaches and barrels at the end of the year. This time the most executive arm of the government, that Invitalia di Stato, the agency that goes from tampons to masks, from radioactive sites to infrastructure contracts, has chosen the end of 2022 to bother the Official Journal. The date is December 28, the publication is in the Special Series dedicated to public contracts, number 151, the last one of the year. The contracting station is spelled out in full: Invitalia Spa National agency for the attraction of investments and business development.
The arm of state
The State Procurement Operational Arm acts on behalf of the National Inspectorate for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection. When the theme is radioactive, it is difficult to go unnoticed, less so in Sardinia than elsewhere. The tender is one of those that must go through the legal publication without making too much fanfare: assignment of the supply, installation, assistance and maintenance of two automatic stations for monitoring radioactivity in atmospheric particulate matter, with a high sampling volume.
Chief Hunt
Sardinia in the "nuclear" contract is never explicitly mentioned, there is not a single reference to a municipality on the island. It simply says Capo Caccia, in brackets SS, which translated means Sassari. The site is listed as military, more precisely in the hands of the Air Force. To be placed in that hermitage of uncontaminated nature and breathtaking landscapes on the coast of Alghero, not surprisingly called the Coral Riviera, there is nothing less than a very modern and very powerful radioactivity monitoring station in atmospheric particulate matter with a high sampling volume.
Radiation station
A radioactive monitoring station that would replace an old military contraption placed right in that area chosen for this new installation. The Invitalia contract provides for two of these powerful nuclear monitoring stations, one in the Bric della Croce air force remote station, in the province of Turin, and one, in fact, at the top of the Capo Caccia promontory. Millionaire contract, one and a half million for two radioactive monitoring stations. Exactly one year to build them, plus 1095 days, exactly 3 years, of "Ordinary assistance and maintenance", which start from the issue of the final certificate of conformity of the stations and installed equipment.
