Our Dutch neighbours are planning to build two brand new nuclear power plants. Thoughts?

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  1. They probably need only the equivalent of 1.5, and will sell the capacity of the remaining 0.5 to Belgium at exuberant pricing, so we’ll be paying for their powerplants.

  2. I think it’s smart. And i think Belgium makes a big mistake stepping away from nuclear. Knowing our neighbours all the plants will be built practicly on the border so we can enjoy the risk of a meltdown without the benefit of the actual power generation :p

  3. At least we have some smart neighbours, let’s hope it will decrease the risk of blackouts in Belgium.

    In 2050 Olivier Deleuze will be remembered as one of the guys who f*cked Belgium and the climate.

  4. They are also keeping their existing plant at Borssele from 1973 open. That’s about the same age as oldest in Doel and Tihange.

  5. Good, all our npp workers can commute to there and not France.
    And perhaps we can start building plants as the BeNeLux trifecta.

  6. Good.

    Maybe we can beg them for a good price when we’ll need to buy energy from them.

    But seriously though, the Netherlands have access to natural gas while we do not. We are much more reliant on imports than they are. Yet they plan to build new plants and we do not.

    Everyone is aware now that we are making a mistake. But fixing that would blow up the government.

  7. great, as long as the unitary energy market holds that’s as good as us building 2 new plants, hopefully it makes up for the lack of gas export

  8. >Daarnaast zet dit kabinet de benodigde stappen voor de bouw van 2 nieuwe kerncentrales. Dat betekent onder andere dat wij marktpartijen faciliteren bij hun verkenningen, innovaties ondersteunen, tenders uitzetten, de (financiële) bijdrage van de overheid bezien, wet- en regelgeving waar nodig in orde maken. Ook zorgen we voor veilige, permanente opslag van kernafval.

    Erg concreet is het regeerakkoord niet. Goed wetende dat D66 er geen wil (klinkt mooi, maar onrealiseerbaar is hun standpunt) en VVD en CDA van een voorstel van 8 kerncentrales komen, twijfel ik er serieus aan of die er ooit gaan komen, behoudens een echte doorbraak op technologisch vlak. Er is tegen 2030 cumulatief 5 miljard voor voorzien, waarvan tegen 2025 500mio om uberhaupt maar de haalbaarheid te testen. Veel concreet zou ik niet verwachten voor 2030.

    Is een beetje hetzelfde als wat er staat in het regeerakkoord voor de kilometerheffing. We voeren het in tegen 2030 maar de regeerperiode loopt maar tot 2025. 🙂

  9. Good for longterm, however I am sceptical if they built these using the same technology as the ones in Belgium and of if they will be built at all since the plan is quite vague right now. Also the (ever-increasing during construction) cost is really the biggest issue right now for building new nuclear power plants and they also seem to say not a lot about that
    Also not sure when they will be ready to go, because that can probably still be a good 15 years of work which is not enough to really do something in terms of climate change.
    I am thinking that investing into smaller power plants like France might be better, however that technology is also not ready at all and therefore can take a long time as well to be reliable and efficient.
    So yeah New Nuclear power is good and all for long-term I guess, but not in the short-term I think.

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