Belgian nuclear industry facing uncertainty under new government: industry group

摘要

An EU probe into a proposed electricity market capacity mechanism and questions about the deadline for a nuclear phaseout raised by the establishment of a new coalition government are creating uncertainty for nuclear energy in Belgium, industry group the Belgian Nuclear Forum said in a statement Oct. 9. Some of the assumptions used by Belgium to justify a proposal to plug gaps left by the phaseout of nuclear power in a mechanism to secure future power capacity seemed “unrealistic,” the European Commission said in a letter to the new Belgian government published Oct. 7.