In a clear reversal, Belgium’s Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC) has formally approved the restart and prolonged ...

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On May 15, 2025, Belgium’s parliament voted to repeal a law that mandated the phase-out of nuclear energy, ... In May 2025, Sweden passed a law to fund a new generation of nuclear reactors, ...

Belgium on Thursday, May 15, officially abandoned plans to phase out nuclear power, with parliament voting to scrap a two-decade-old pledge, allowing for the construction of new reactors.

As of this writing, there are 94 U.S. nuclear reactors operating across 28 states. Between 2012 through 2022, however, 12 reactors producing 9,436 megawatts (MW) of power shut down.

The NRC has overseen commercial nuclear reactors for 50 years since its creation in 1975. Amid concerns over overregulation, the U.S. has only two operational commercial reactors whose ...

Framatome has been chosen by Engie’s Electrabel to upgrade and modernise Belgium's Tihange 3 and Doel 4 reactors.

The law stipulated that nuclear power plants were to be closed by 2025 at the latest, while prohibiting the construction of new reactors. In 2022, Belgium delayed the phaseout by 10 years, with ...

In 2022, all the nuclear reactors in the US together provided around 800 terawatt-hours of electricity to the power grid, a number that’s been basically steady for the past two decades.

Belgium on Thursday officially abandoned plans to phase out nuclear power, with parliament voting to scrap a two-decades-old pledge and to allow for the construction of new reactors.