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All Belgian residents issued with iodine tablets to protect against radiation
- rkrzr 10y agoMakes you wonder how safe those old power plants really are... Both the Netherlands and Germany have recently asked Belgian officials to shut down two of their oldest plants.
- Someone 10y agoIf you read how the two Belgian plants 'operated' (my impression: shut down, repairs, restart, discover a small problem a few days later shut down, repeat) the last few years, it surely makes you wonder. Wikipedia doesn't give much confidence, either. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tihange_Nuclear_Power_Station https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tihange_Nuclear_Power_Statio...: "Since 2006 there has been a leak of 0.5-2 liters per day of mildly radioactive water from a deactivation-bath. After this was notified to the Belgium Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC) (nl) Electrabel tried to find the cause of the leak. But on 11 July 2012 it became apparent that the leakage still exists. According to FANC this issue is "under control" and no radioactivity leaks outside the building" I know a nuclear reactor is all kinds of piping with hot sometime extremely reactive stuff flowing through it, so leaks are almost avoidable, but that text makes it look as if they cannot even find the cause (or worse: do not want to find it because they would have to spend money to repair it then) and use "but it is only inside the building" as an excuse. For me, that sounds as if there is a permanent problem with one of the defense rings.
- thedaemon 10y agoSo this is where Nuka Cola originates.