“To exclude the extension of more than two reactors today is careless.” That is what the chairman of the ruling party MR, Georges-Louis Bouchez, says a day after the agreement within the government to keep two nuclear power plants open longer.
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MR chairman Bouchez has argued in recent weeks and months in favor of keeping the youngest two nuclear power plants open. For a long time, he was the only government partner to do so. The war in Ukraine, and our (admittedly slight) dependence on Russian gas, made his colleagues relent.
His discourse on nuclear energy was strikingly in line with that of the opposition party N-VA. That party also thought it was pointless to close the youngest nuclear power plants. Some time ago, chairman Bart De Wever went one step further: he argued for keeping even more older power stations open.
And now it seems that Bouchez thinks the same. “To exclude the extension of more than two reactors today is careless,” he tweeted.
According to Bouchez, there are no guarantees that the necessary gas-fired power stations can be built on time. Moreover, gas will be increasingly excluded, he believes.
Incidentally, it is far from certain that the youngest nuclear reactors can remain open. This requires difficult negotiations with manager Engie first.
To be clear: Doel 4 and Tihange 3 only make up 3 percent of our total energy supply.
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