Nuclear: who is ready to sit on the new safety standards?

Current safety standards prevent Doel 1, Doel 2 and Tihange 1 from operating beyond 2025. To extend these three units, the safety requirements must therefore be reduced.

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Head of Investigations

By Xavier Counasse

Published on 02/23/2023 at 19:54
Reading time: 3 mins

Lhe nuclear phase-out timetable, as rearranged by the Michel government, was untenable. It took a lot – too much – time to realize this, but the observation now seems to be unanimous. The closure, between 2022 and 2025, of the seven Belgian reactors (which produce a large half of the country’s needs) risks putting our security of supply at risk. And counting on neighboring countries to fill the gap, while they themselves are scraping gigawatts from the bottom of the drawer, was not the idea of ​​the century.

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