Is it really happening?
https://www.rt.com/news/346143-belgium-nuclear-plant-tihange/
>A reactor at Belgium's Tihange nuclear power plant has shut down automatically following an abnormality on Friday, the plant operator said. The causes behind the incident are being investigated.
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>There has been no radiation leak, according to the operator.
A safety mechanism installed at the reactor No.2 had shut it down automatically, said Anne-Sophie Huge, a spokeswoman for energy company Electrabel.
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>The mechanism is designed to force the reactor to shut down "when an abnormality is detected," she added, saying the causes of Friday’s interruption are now being assessed by specialists.
Goodbye world
https://www.rt.com/news/341238-belgium-nuclear-iodine-threat/
>Belgian officials have grown so worried about the country’s nuclear power plants that the government has been advised to let everyone living within a 100-kilometer radius of the plants be issued with iodine pills. This is basically the entire population.
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>The recommendation was made by Health Minister Maggie De Block, who said the current legislation, which gives iodine pills to Belgians within a 20-kilometer radius, is inadequate and should be extended to 100 kilometers, according to La Libre daily.
This is fucking major:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3510384/Belgian-nuclear-plant-guard-murdered-security-pass-stolen-two-days-Brussels-attacks.html
>>76918059
>Anne-Sophie Huge, a spokeswoman
a huge problem for BE.
Automatic shutdown following detection of an anomaly? That's code for imminent meltdown!
>>76918059
Nuke the Belgians, Benelux war NOW!
>>76918059
This is why you replace older reactors with newer ones, instead of letting alarmist politics get in the way of progress.
Also this is not the first automatic reactor shutdown in history, these events are fairly common.
Inuu cheeki breeki Ive damke
>>76918479
That may be but there are certain circumstances involved.
>>76918059
Yes thats called a SCRAM, they happen all the fucking time. It just means the plant had to shut down to keep your dumbass safe
>>76918059
Plants trip all the time because things go wrong. Safety features are redundant, and usually trips are caused by an issue with the power generation, not reactor safety. Stop being such alarmists.
Read http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3510384/Belgian-nuclear-plant-guard-murdered-security-pass-stolen-two-days-Brussels-attacks.html
That old hag shuts down every week or so, mostly because some old non-essential components are breaking down. It's on the news at least once a month, with it the usual 'it's happening defcon 1'.
>>76918293
ohhhohihohohohohoh
IT'S HAPPENING AAAA THE WORLD IS GOING TO END AAAHHHH
>>76920001
Source? Didn't notice something like that while looking for background info.
BELGIUM BELGIUM BELGIUM
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/20/belgium-rejects-german-call-for-nuclear-plants-closure
>Belgium on Wednesday rejected a request by neighbouring Germany to shutter two ageing nuclear plants near their shared border, arguing the facilities met with the strictest safety standards.
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>German environment minister, Barbara Hendricks, earlier on Wednesday requested that the 40-year-old Tihange 2 and Doel 3 reactors be turned off “until the resolution of outstanding security issues”.
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>In response, Belgium’s official nuclear safety agency (AFCN) said the two plants “respond to the strictest possible safety requirements.”
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>The agency “is always willing to collaborate with their German counterparts ... but only as long as a shared willingness to cooperate in a constructive fashion is demonstrated,” it added in a terse statement.
http://www.dw.com/en/a-nuclear-terrorism-threat-made-in-belgium/a-19191458
>One Belgian jihadi spent three years working at the Doel nuclear site, home to Belgium's oldest reactor. As a security engineer employed by a contractor, Ilyass Boughalab had access to the high-security zone, before he left to fight for the so-called "Islamic State" in Syria at the end of 2012. Two years later, Boughalab was tried in absentia for being a member of the terrorist organization Sharia4Belgium. During the trial, news emerged he had already died in Syria.
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>At around the same time, Belgian utility company Electrabel had to shut down a reactor at Doel for a few months, following an oil leak that was the result of sabotage. All circumstantial evidence suggested that one of the 800 workers employed at the site must have perpetrated the attack.
Read the whole thing:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-bunn/belgium-nuclear-terrorism_b_9559006.html
>>76918163
>Having heard nothing from Brussels on the closure of either power plant, the North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday that they, too, would be taking similar preventative measures, with iodine tablets being made available to the over 45-year-olds, children and pregnant women in the case of a serious nuclear leak.
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>"We will gradually provide each municipality with iodine tablets," spokeswoman for NRW Interior Ministry Marlin Mailänder told DW.
http://www.dw.com/en/north-rhine-westphalia-prepares-for-belgium-nuclear-accident-with-iodine-tablets/a-19279950
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3632958/The-threat-NUCLEAR-terror-attack-highest-Cold-War-ISIS-continues-try-obtain-materials-dirty-bomb-warns-international-think-tank.html
>The threat of a 'dirty bomb' terror attack on a European city is at its highest level since the end of the Cold War, international nuclear experts have warned.
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>ISIS's efforts to obtain nuclear materials, and continued threats to attack Western capitals contribute to experts' analysis that the threat of a bomb is higher than ever.
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>ISIS has used chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria and militants linked to both the Paris and Brussels attacks had been studying a Belgian nuclear power plant.
>groundburst nuclear explosions will wipe the world
okay.
yeah it's gonna be fun
>>76922757
bump
Nothing happening, these safety measures are so strict that even an outside temperature rise of 1 degree Celcius makes the whole plant safety measures shut everything down
