BRUSSELS –
It was already dozens of years ago announced that hairline cracks were in parts of the nuclear power stations in the Belgian cities of Tihange and doel. That were already at the stage of construction of the first reactors in the seventies found. The energy companies knew of them, writes Der Spiegel on Friday.
This is evident from minutes of meetings and analysis of the Belgian nuclear regulator, FANC, which will be in the hands of the German mp Sylvia Kotting-Uhl from the Greens. The German magazine writes on his site that is already in april 1975, it was determined that there was something wrong with the pressure regulators. In the steel used were tiny cracks. The material was rejected.
Tihange, near Huy, in the province of Liège, and Purpose, between Antwerp and the Dutch border, are often confronted with problems that make it necessary reactors out of service. Environmentalists and concerned citizens requirements for years, closure of the plants.