Belgium: Fire and Explosion at Tihange Nuclear Power Plant

Tihange Nuclear Power Station in Belgium

Belgian nuclear crisis continues with fire at Tihange
Blogpost by Shaun Burnie, Greenpeace, 3 December, 2014

Belgium's nuclear crisis continued this week with a fire and explosion at the Tihange nuclear power plant. The fire began in the electrical substation transformer building at approximately 10.30am on Sunday, December 1 and led to an emergency shutdown of reactor unit 3. The 29 year old Tihange nuclear reactor is located near Liege and is 70 kilometers west of the city of Aachen. The fire was put out by the local fire service. The reactor restarted at 5.00am on December 2.
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