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
Thank you for your attention
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