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Tihange 2 nuclear power plant to definitely shut down on 31 January

The Tihange 2 nuclear reactor will still produce electricity until the end of January, before it will be permanently disconnected from the grid, operator Engie Electrabel confirmed.
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After Doel 3, it will be Tihange 2's turn to be permanently disconnected in 2023. The legal closing date is 1 February, and the reactor will not be disconnected until midnight on 31 January – meaning it will produce electricity until the very end of the legal term.
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After Tihange 2 has officially closed down in February, Belgium will still have five nuclear power plants, which are set to close in 2025.

However, the Federal Government is currently negotiating with operator Engie over extending the Doel 4 and Tihange 3 reactors for another ten years, but the negotiations are not going smoothly and Engie previously confirmed that they have been "delayed."

Tinne Van der Straeten, the Green energy minister, is calling on the government to move ahead with its plan to shut down Belgium's remaining reactors — a position that's in line with the party's anti-nuclear agenda and that she has defended as consistent with the country's long-term climate goals.

But her suggestion to build new gas-fired plants to replace part of the nuclear capacity before relying fully on renewables isn't going down well with other parties, especially as natural gas prices soar across Europe.

The Greens' insistence on pushing ahead with the nuclear phaseout "reflects an old [line of] thinking in the green movement," said Suzana Carp, an independent adviser working on the EU's Emissions Trading System, referring to the anti-nuclear protests that fueled Green parties across Europe during the Cold War. "However, when we are in a climate emergency, you can’t use the old argument of why we have to phase out of nuclear to justify building up new polluting technologies."

Times have changed, said Bouchez. “In 2021, the problem is no longer nuclear security. It remains a problem, but the biggest problem is CO2.”

“If for the Greens, increasing CO2 emissions is a political victory, good for them, but they will have to explain it to the young people who are demonstrating,” he added.

• Tyska energiföretaget Uniper kommer inte bygga någon ny kärnkraft i Sverige, inte heller genom något dotterbolag i Sverige, det säger en talesperson för företaget till Ekot.

• Därmed motsäger Uniper den förhoppning som Åsa Carlsson, VD för Unipers svenska dotterbolag uttryckte för en tid sedan, Carlsson hoppades då att ett nytt kärnkraftverk i Sverige kunde invigas i Barsebäckområdet under första halvan av 2030-talet.

• ”Vare sig i Sverige eller någon annanstans har Uniper några planer på att bygga ny kärnkraft, det är fakta”, säger Georg Oppermann, talesperson för Uniper i Tyskland.