On Friday (30 March), the Belgian government approved a new energy pact that will see the country phase out atomic power between 2022 and 2025.
Belgium’s federal government signed off on an agreement that will see the country’s seven nuclear reactors shuttered by 2025.
As part of a package of other measures, Doel and Tihange nuclear power stations will be closed and more investment will be pumped into renewable energy capacity building, particularly offshore wind farms………
Micro-cracks were discovered in reactors at both power plants in 2013 and were closed until 2015 while extensive safety checks were carried out. Environmental groups were outraged when their licences were extended until 2025, by which time they will nearly be half a century old.
Belgium’s new Nuclear Energy Strategy recently came into force, under which radiation-busting iodine tablets were made available to everyone resident in the country in case of a nuclear incident…..https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/belgium-pledges-to-ditch-nuclear-power-by-2025/
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