Nucleair power centrals & its waste in Belgium

Olivia Nelis

Working of

How ?

Advantages nuclair power

• Volume of waste is very small. For example compared to chemical waste

• Low CO2 emission• Waste disappears because of half-life.

BUT is independant! Seconds ? Or can still be long time!

=> Storage needed!

Different kinds of radiation

How to store

• Nucleair waste + glass: clot in SS barrel

• Wait until it’s no longer harmful

Disposal: 2 options

• Safe storage in an underground disposal. Nuclear waste goes to a deep stable layer where it can safely be deleted.

• Transmutation: The conversion of long-lived radioactive waste into short-lived. At laboratory scale this is already possible.

Belgium: 7 reactors

• NPP Doel (4 reactors)• Tihange NPP (3 reactors)• Studycenter SCK • CEN Mol• Research Reactor in Ghent (INW). • On the territory of Mol / Dessel is the national

nuclear waste processing Belgoprocess.• In Dessel are two factories for production of

nuclear fuel: FBFC and Belgonucléaire.

Which makes us

• 3th worldwide for the share of electricity generated in nuclear power plants.

• 55% of our energy is nucleair energy

Geological disposal

Surface disposal

(!:Less harmful waste)

Fusion ?• No nucleair waste• No chain reaction (can be stopped)• inexhaustible

Belgian government

• Government wants to shut down all nucleair reactors

• Governments quits for 2nd time in 3 years.

• Future is insecure ?

• => NEW PROJECT

Windmills ! Thorntonbank

In the sea

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