ENGIE Electrabel - Centrale Nucléaire de Tihange

This perfectly safe nuclear power plant provides 15% of Belgium’s energy needs. This amounts to millions of tons of carbon emissions saved since it went online. I’m grateful we have this wonderful, stable source of clean energy to fight against the climate catastrophe.

We need many more!

EDIT: to respond to the previous reviewer. Accident, accident. Do you know the safety mechanisms in place in this power plant? It’s extraordinary. A comet could hit the site and it wouldn’t do much. We cannot afford to dismiss this safe and clean energy source just because there *could* theoretically be an accident. We need to get rid of fossil fuels, which are doing damage EVERY SINGLE DAY by design, without an accident ever. In fact, I wish there were more accidents in coal or oil plants so they would stop working and people might start caring more about the damage they do.

To the germans that came here to complain, how do you feel about it now? We have seen what came from your over dependence on russian gas and exploding prices of energy.

Nuclear energy is what powers the universe for the last 13.8 billion years. And we are smart enough to embrace it. However still not perfect, it is the best option we have for the future. We need more research into better nuclear energy instead of non recyclable solar panels and windmill blades and greenhouse gas emitting gas/browncoal centrals...

Hey let's just see what happens. I heard it saves a lot of money. If something happens, it won't be that bad I suppose. Our government knows what they are doing and they will protect us no matter what. What happened in Fukushima is heavily exaggerated, not even one single person died there.

People saying that nuclear power kills innocent civilians do not understand the data, nuclear is the safest form of energy generation by far, even counting chernobyl (an accident caused by bad ussr regulations that would never be allowed anywhere else), 3 mile island (which liberated near to no radiation at all) and fukushima (which didnt kill a single citizen from radiation, the deaths were from the tsunami that caused the meltdown in the first place)

Very important plant for the continuous supply of clean electricity to Belgium. It is sad to read all the reviews from mostly German people who ought to study the topic a little more and take care of their own lignite power stations.

As a kid, I survived Chernobyl in Belarus without noticing. I am living now in Belgium. Thiange nuclear power plant is some 60km away. Still, my daily worry is not its relative proximity but the so called brownout plan, that is a plan devised by the Belgian authorities to disconnect portions of the country from the electricity grid in case of capacity shortage.

Why would such a rich country have a capacity shortage? Because it decided to close its nuclear power plants. French are shy of investing into nuclear as well and Germany has its own share of problems to keep fluctuations of power generation under control.

We are also limited by EU regulations with regards to coal plants capacity cap. And we can not even keep coal plants ready to fire without running into troubles with EU competition authorities.

European power grid is falling apart, and general public did not notice yet.

I am stashing candles and batteries at home. I have a gaz heater, just in case. And a bit of wood. But I really freak out at the possibility of an extended blackout.

Please, continue working.

Nuclear powerplants are the safest source of energy. Our nice politicians should think about transmutation! No CO2 emissions, small area needed (compared to wind, hydroelectric or solar), and much safer.

While not the cleanest energy it is unfortunately xxxxxxxxxxx times healtier than the cancerous BRaUnKOhL spewers that go and on...and on over the tiny windgenerators of NRW. Poor endlessly hypocritical Germany.

Absolute clean energy powerhouse! The equivalent of about 3000 wind turbines (and lots of energy storage), but on a tiny little slice of land! Keep it going! <3

Clean, safe and reliable energy. Too bad there are a lot of science deniers in the reviews here. As in some political parties..

Great electricity!
Green, safe, fresh.

Keep up the good work Tihange.

good power. glows in dark. very nice.

Great way to produce Carbon free electricity, much better for the environment and combat cancers than Germans who prefer to burn coal.

Nuclear is awesome. Sad to see Tihange 2 go :(

Nuclear power plants are safe and espiecially in this times should be appreciated

Go nuclear power.

Nuclear energy for the win. Very impressive when up close. (JUST LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THOSE COOLING TOWERS)

Thank you for many hours of co2 free, clean and available baseload grid energy.

You can provide the entire country of salt with this review section!