Belgian roadside reactors: More than 250 reported cases

The Belgian nuclear regulatory authority (Fanc) has, apparently, tried also under new leadership, to keep information about incidents in the roadside reactor Tihange in liège under lock and key. The MIRROR reported, citing internal emails and lists of the authority.

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and Then not published by the Fanc more than 250 incidents in the breakdown of the reactors Tihange and Doel for the period up to 2017. Including a striking clustering of contamination of staff in the reactor block 2 of the nuclear power plant Tihange. (Click here to read the whole story in the new MIRROR.)

According to the list were suspended in the NUCLEAR power plant Tihange, in the five years a total of eleven employees of the radioactive radiation. The Fanc assured that the incidents were not safety-relevant, and the permissible limits have not been exceeded for the affected employees. Otherwise, you have kept to all the Youwin rules.

"Dangerous policy of Concealment"

Frank Hardeman in may the chief of the Fanc. A more difficult Job. Because for years, the authority is suspected of, risks and hazards in the case of two Belgian nuclear to keep the power plants: the case of Antwerp, nearby the reactor Doel 3 and about 60 kilometres from the German border away, the nuclear power plant of Tihange 2. The nuclear physicist, has promised "transparency and security".

German experts, such as the Green-atomic energy expert Sylvia Kotting-Uhl to criticize now that the Fanc also run under the direction of your in may, newly appointed heads of a "dangerous policy of Concealment". Detailed information to the operator of the nuclear power plant were to the contamination apparently not even requested to go to a possible cause.

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Date Of Update: 27 October 2018, 04:08