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Belgian parliament scraps nuclear phaseout plan
Belgium has dropped nuclear phaseout plans adopted over two decades ago. Previously, it had delayed the phaseout for 10 years over the energy uncertainty triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"The Federal Parliament has just turned the page on two decades of blockages and hesitation to pave the way for a realistic and resilient energy model," Energy Minister Mathieu Bihet of the center-right Reformist Movement party was cited by the AFP news agency as saying. The law stipulated that nuclear power plants were to be closed by 2025 at the latest, while prohibiting the construction of new reactors. The previous coalition government included the environmentalist Ecolo and Groen parties, both of which opposed scrapping the phaseout.
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