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A reactor of the Belgian Tihange, not far across the border from Maastricht again shut down. When maintenance is a building of the plant damaged announced the operator of the plant.

In the Belgian Tihange in Liege incorporated five steel components that are tampered. The declared French producer Creusot overheated the forgings at too low a temperature and treated a second time without the documentation.

Fearing a nuclear disaster in neighboring Belgium beats the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia millions more iodine tablets. The tablets offer some protection against radioactive iodine that may be released in an accident in a nuclear power plant.

The Belgian nuclear watchdog has energy company Electrabel for the second time reprimanded in a year for safety in the nuclear power plant of Tihange 3. This reported the Belgian newspaper De Morgen Saturday.

About four thousand people demonstrated Sunday in Aachen for the closure of the nuclear power plant in the Belgian Tihange. With yellow umbrellas bearing the nuclear logo, the demonstrators made it clear that shelter is impossible for them if it ever goes wrong in Tihange that not only is near Aachen, but also only 40 kilometers from Maastricht.

Belgian soldiers continue to protect nuclear plants in Doel and Tihange. The Council of Ministers decided to extend the deployment of the army Friday to three months, as the security situation has remained unchanged. The threat level in Belgium is still 3 on a scale of four.

The Belgian reactor Tihange 2 is Thursday night restarts.,, The reactor Tihange 2 since 22:56 hours again on the network, '' a spokesman said.

Automatic shutdown of the Belgian reactor Tihange 2, near Huy in the province, is due to a failure of an electric motor. That said a spokesman for the nuclear power plant Saturday. The reactor will probably Wednesday, June 15th reboot.

The controversial Belgian nuclear reactors in Tihange and Doel contain steel components that do not meet the standards. Which reported Saturday the newspaper De Tijd. The company that operates the nuclear power plants, Engie Electrabel, showed Saturday namely research await to this allegation, according to news agency Belga.

No later than 2017 should be able to get everyone in Belgium iodine pills in case of a nuclear disaster. The pills must limit the damage to health. The Belgian Health Minister Maggie De Block is working on a distribution system that should stand on its feet at the latest next year, Belgian media reported Thursday.

One of the nuclear reactors at Doel, near the Dutch border over Antwerp, will lie still until late May. That made the operator of the nuclear reactor Engie Electrabel Thursday.

Trade unionists block Tuesday the Belgian Tihange, not far from Maastricht. The staff complained for months about the business, reason for the trade unions to take action.

In Froidchapelle a security guard on Thursday shot dead in Belgian Hainaut. The man worked as a security guard at the National Institute for Radio Elements (IRE) in Fleurus, justice confirmed in Charleroi. Belgian media reported Saturday that the guard was working at a nuclear power and that his access badge was stolen.

The controversial Belgian nuclear reactors in Tihange and Doel at the Dutch border, miss the German Government filter if high pressure must be reduced. This has the German Government in response to the Group of the Greens said in the Bundestag, the Rheinische Zeitung reported Friday.

The German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate go to the European Commission and the United Nations complaining about the Belgian nuclear power plants Doel and Tihange.

Belgium and Germany will each nuclear power plants submit to an inspection. Netherlands in January already started checking according to some unsafe reactors in the southern neighbors.

Rescuers found the lifeless body of the 12-year-old Belgian boy Saturday afternoon sewer was dragged by a flood.
Antoine Chabot was found in the water of the river.