Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by chpatrick on Thursday April 30, 2026 @10:38AM (#47963236)

In my part of Europe (Hungary), on a sunny day we have more energy produced from solar (on top of about 50% nuclear) than we can actually use. Sometimes we're 110% zero-carbon and it's because of solar and nuclear.

As of writing this comment our energy mix is 35.69% solar, 23.19% nuclear, 26.66% nuclear imported from Slovakia. The rest is hydro and solar from Austria and about 5% gas and biomass.

In my opinion clean electricity is an almost solved problem, especially as storage gets better.

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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by cassepipe on Friday May 01, 2026 @09:55AM (#47974871)

I am surprised that this is the case after reading how Orban was behaving on the matter of its oil and gas sources. I guess the big problem is that the economy and heating is still very fossil dependent ?

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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by chpatrick on Friday May 01, 2026 @07:07PM (#47981545)

Yes, we can't immediately convert all vehicles to electric and gas boilers to heat pumps, so if we lose access to gas and oil we're kind of screwed.

Orbán had 16 years of unlimited power to diversify from Russia as the only source though, so there's no excuse.

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