In other words, there was a terrorist attack on an allegedly vulnerable nuclear plant and the effects were so small that it took them ages to work out what happened... Not exactly a demonstration of a high-risk system!
Let say this way, Belgium and Europe escape a extinction event, do Stupidity of terrorist.
Save for the small detail that Chernobyl was graphite moderated and neither Fukushima nor Tihange have that vulnerability, and the other small detail that Tihange's containment capability is twice as redundant as Fukushima. This goes back to my first post: not all nuclear plants are equally vulnerable.
Now that's the other more Dangerous problem we face in Europe: Stupidity of Belgium Politicians with nuclear reactors
see the Belgium Nuclear Power plants are BEYOND there Life time and had to be closed down in 2015 (Parlament ruling in 2000)
But Belgium Politicians goofed up massive, they had 15 years time to build replacement power plants and renewable energy until 2015
IT HAPPEN NOTHING, either budget problems, the struggle between Flemish and Walloons were more important as replacement power plants.
Special hypocrite were the
Environmentalism (Greens) in Belgium, the Parliamentarians Greens fight for shutdown of Nuclear power plants, while the Regionals Green fight against...renewable energy.
Yes you read right local Greens fight against solar cells, wind turbines,
Gas turbine plants, high voltage power lines to Germany ( and also against Vaccination).
For the Moment the closed down is delay to 2025
sadly two reactors blocks in Belgium are ready for the scrap heap (Tihange 2 and Doel 3)
At Tihange the external reactor hulls is made from low quality Concrete and will fail in Harrisburg type disaster
and Tihange 2 and Doel 3 have thousands of semi laminar flaws in the reactor vessel's steel !
at Tihange 2 the situation is so serious that cooling water must be HEATED up to +50°C to prevent rupture
in case of emergencies they need to pump cold river water into system, the reactor vessel will Rupture !
To make matter worst Belgium reactors run on
MOX fuel a mixture of uranium and plutonium
Who need Terrorist, if you elected politicians are incapable morons...
Source in english
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doel_Nuclear_Power_Station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tihange_Nuclear_Power_Station
that Tihange reactor block after
repairs work on concrete hull, filling up the cracks and corrosions...