The Italian Nuclear Physics Institute
INFN is to draw up a feasibility study to host the new advanced
gravitational wave observatory the Einstein Telescope in a
former tin mine near Nuoro in northern Sardinia, Research
Minister Anna Maria Bernini said Monday.
She said the project would have provisional funding of 50
million euros from the massive EU-funded post-COVID National
Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP).
In its feasibility study, called ETIC, the INFN will provide
answers to be put to the Italian premier's office, Bernini said.
The project, called SOS Enattos, would be provisionally located
in the former mine at Lula, a small town near Nuoro.
University and Research Minister Bernini was answering
journalists' questions regarding both the supporting
infrastructure and the project - opposed by experts - of a wind
farm considered too close to the site.
The Einstein Telescope is a proposed third-generation
gravitational-wave observatory, currently in the planning stage.
The border region between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany
is being considered as one of the possible locations.
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