Doel 3 reactor to close for good on Friday evening | VRT NWS: news

At 9:15 pm on Friday evening the Doel 3 in East Flanders will be disconnected from the electricity grid. Doel 3 will become the first of Belgium’s seven nuclear reactors to be permanently shut down. Although, extending the reactor's productive life is still technically possible the Director of the Doel nuclear power station Peter Moens told VRT News that will not be done as ‘We do not improvise with nuclear safety".