Belgium Embracing Nuclear Power, Abandoning 20 Year Phase Out Plans
Nuclear power is the most reliable and cleanest form of energy.
LOL!
Belgium has accepted reality and embraced nuclear power 20 years after passing phase-out legislation.
The Belgian government intends to acquire all of the “nuclear operations in the country” from the French energy group Engie.
“By doing so, the Belgian Government is taking responsibility for Belgium’s long-term energy future, with the objective of building a financially and economically viable activity that supports security of supply, climate objectives, industrial resilience and socio-economic prosperity,” Engie and the Belgian government said in a joint statement.
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever wrote on X (Google translation):
An agreement has been reached with ENGIE to define the conditions and initiate the necessary studies for a full takeover of the Belgian nuclear park. In the meantime, all decommissioning activities are being halted with immediate effect.
This government chooses safe, affordable, and sustainable energy. With less dependence on fossil imports and more control over our own supply.
Er is een akkoord bereikt met ENGIE om de voorwaarden te bepalen en de nodige studies op te starten voor een volledige overname van het Belgische nucleaire park. In afwachting daarvan worden alle ontmantelingsactiviteiten per direct stopgezet.
Deze regering kiest voor zekere,…
— Bart De Wever (@Bart_DeWever) April 30, 2026
Belgium has seven nuclear reactors. The country has only two power plants generating electricity.
The agreement would open the other five.
I don’t know if Belgium plans to build more reactors. Legislation in 2003 banned the country from building new reactors and placed a 40-year lifetime on the existing ones.
However, Belgium considered extending the lives of the three oldest ones as recently as 2023.
The oldest three reactors have been operational since 1975. The country should have shut them down in 2015, but extended them to 2025 after a review of the phase-out plan.
The BBC reported that Belgium planned to dismantle the five reactors, but will suspend those moves.
Leslie has written many times about the positivity of using nuclear power, celebrating when a country decides to use it.
You would think the climate cultists would love nuclear energy:
- 1. A Low-carbon energy – Yes, it emits the least greenhouse gases!
- 2. Constant and controllable energy
- 3. Competitive energy – Least expensive!!
- 4. Energy that is essential to the electricity mix
- 5. Energy that is vital for tomorrow’s world
- 6. Energy that is sparing in its demand for raw materials – It saves natural resources!
- 7. Energy that preserves health – It does NOT emit fine particles, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrates or phosphates into the atmosphere!
The plume escaping the reactors? Water vapor. That’s it.
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I want the Trump administration to create an ad campaign reminiscent of one from long ago:
THIS . . . is your brain.
And THIS is your brain on “green energy”.
Use an old photo of Al Gore.
Or a picture of Hakeem Jeffries’ eyes. 👀
Hakeem’s eyes look dead.
They have decided to use their little gray cells.
Kenneth Branagh couldn’t shine David Suchet’s spats.
Next: Withdraw from the EU.
Yeah my first thought was does the EU know yet??
Of course they could also require the EU to always just use green energy. Who cares if at times there is no power. I’d call that a benefit.
Enviromorons aren’t just opposed to nuclear energy, they’re opposed to electricity – except for themselves, of course.
I’ll go you one further: enviromorons are opposed to people, except themselves.
How are they handling the spent fuel rods?
Spent nuclear fuel is now recycled and repurposed to be reused in fusion reactors…pretty cool new technology…please try to keep up.
I think he was asking IF they reprocess, not implying that soe t fuel rods are a problem. Dies Belfium have any capability to reprocess or will they ship the used rods elsewhere for reprocessing?
…sorry…fission reactors…
It says they’re using French technology. I think the French use breeder reactors.
I would imagine that they will use the same system that the French have been using.
My dad was VP for a power generation company…he always maintained that wind and solar are completely worthless as far as powering a grid and are a colossal waste of money; they’re fine for individual and isolated applications where they can be easily backed up with traditional power sources…but the modern world has wasted BILLIONS of dollars on these two “green” (not at all green, by the way) energy projects…it’s past time to sunset all the taxpayer subsidies and end the politicians grifting off the money train.
They are great for bikes, night lights on my fences, work great
But cars , all these houses with roofs filled with solar panels, trucks , terrible
Solar requires batteries, and battery technology is improving.
I think national grids should include multiple technologies.
You go girl
I’ll take anything on my grid but soar
We in Texas have paid a price for 30% being solar on our energy grid
Disaster
I agree with the last sentence, but I question the first at the present time. If you really want concentrations of lithium batteries on the national grid than I suggest you volunteer to fight the fires when they inevitably occur.
The fact that our country does not take Gen IV nuclear seriously makes me think that our government actually never considered global warming a real problem during any administration.
The same thought has occurred to me. I can’t think of any other explanation.
The left doesn’t like nuclear because it doesn’t allow them to use a bunch of toxic chemicals that are part of grift campaigns for wind and solar (see Tom Steyer). It’s so transparent and obvious that it’s laughable.