mon 01 feb 2016, 17:41

Also Germany showed a certain preference in nuclear power plants in Belgium

BRUSSELS –

Belgium and Germany are also going to each other’s nuclear facilities to inspection topics. The netherlands in January already started with the check of the according to some unsafe reactors in the south.

The German environment minister Barbara Hendricks came Monday to Brussels to the concerns in Germany about the ‘scheurtjescentrales’. The Belgian Interior minister Jan Jambon assured her that no risk is taken.

,,If it is not safe, then they would not open,” said Ham about the recently opened reactors doel 3 and Tihange 2. He said last month similar words against minister Melanie Schultz (Environment). Hendricks said , for the moment reassured.’

Belgium and France already ten years of joint inspections of each other’s nuclear power plants.