Belgium will shut down all seven of its nuclear reactors by 2025 but will not close the door on new-generation nuclear technology, the coalition government announced on Thursday.
A government source said the deal reached by the coalition included an agreement of "investments of around €100 million on small modular reactors".
Progressively phasing out nuclear power has been enshrined in Belgian law since 2003.
The final date is 2025, a target the current government committed to meet when it took office in October 2020, but the issue has divided the governing seven-party coalition of greens, socialists, and Prime Minister Alexander De Croo's liberals.
The French-speaking liberal MR party argued against completely abandoning nuclear power, a
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