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Why did Minister Verlinden give a colored reading of the Fanc report?

According to the Fanc, the watchdog that watches over nuclear safety, it is not good administration to wait with the dismantling of Doel 3, the nuclear reactor that will be taken out of service in a week. This is remarkable, because the competent federal minister, Annelies Verlinden, said Thursday a to the point the opposite: according to her, Fanc believed it was ‘theoretically possible’ to postpone the preparatory work that would have put the reactor out of use permanently. Verlinden (CD&V), perhaps encouraged by its president Sammy Mahdi, had asked the Fanc for a certain answer and was at that moment the only one who already had the Fanc report available.

This raises serious questions: had the minister not yet thoroughly read the report or was he deliberately giving a color version of the contents? In the first case, the question is why she is on …

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