17.11.2015_No212 / News
17 Nov (NucNet) : Belgium’s nuclear regulator has announced that it has authorised operator Electrabel to restart the Doel-3 and Tihange-2 nuclear units, both of which have been offline because of uncertainties over the structural integrity of their reactor pressure vessels (RPVs).
The Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (Fanc) said Electrabel had shown that hydrogen flakes, or “microbubbles”, in the walls of the RPVs have no “unacceptable impact” on (…)