“The Federal Government has decided to take the necessary measures to extend the life of the two most recent nuclear reactors by ten years,” Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced on Twitter on Friday.
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A release postponed due to the war in Ukraine. Belgium decided on Friday March 18 to postpone its nuclear phase-out scheduled for 2025 by ten years, worried about soaring energy prices due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“The federal government has decided to take the necessary measures to extend the life of the two newest nuclear reactors by ten years”Prime Minister Alexander De Croo wrote on Twitter. “At the same time, we are accelerating the transition to renewables, the best path to our energy independence”, he added.
The federal government has decided to take the necessary measures to extend the life of the two most recent nuclear reactors by ten years.
At the same time, we are accelerating the transition to renewables, the best path to our energy independence.
—Alexander De Croo (@alexanderdecroo) March 18, 2022
As RTBF recalls, an agreement signed in September 2020 by the seven parties of the Belgian government provided for a total phase-out of nuclear power in 2025. “But soaring energy prices and the war in Ukraine have reshuffled the cards,” says the same source. The 2003 nuclear exit law must therefore be amended at the end of the month.