(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 20 - 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. (ANSA).