The little secrets of nuclear: the underside of the burial of the waste that do we do with our nuclear waste?What solutions for our nuclear waste?

Nuclear fascinates.Fascination because it produces half of all Belgian electricity with few raw materials.

Worried nuclear.Concern because these raw materials are among the most dangerous on the planet.Chernobyl and Fukushima are there to testify to it.

Nuclear divides.Division because talking about it is to position yourself ideologically.The greatest challenge of this investigation will be to get out of ideology and activism.It will mainly be based on facts, figures and scientific analyzes.It will not decide the question of the extension of Belgian power plants.Especially since Agie-Electrabel recently announced its desire to respect the legal calendar for the exit of nuclear in2025.The debate that occupies us is that of radioactive waste.Whether the power plants close or not, they will be there for hundreds of thousands of years.For an eternity.Nuclear without waste would be the dream.But, has always been the pebble in the shoe of this energy with unrivaled power.

What will we be able to bring new to this passionate debate?Through a series of articles, we will take a critical and independent look at certain official versions.Our waste would be managed safely and clean.Their burial would be the only long-term solution and the financing of such an operation would be settled thanks to the sacrosanct principle of polluter paysur.So many communication messages that we will dissect.The investigation will also reveal what can be called nuclear secrets.Shortcuts that are sometimes taken with the reality on the ground.

What to do with our radioactive waste?This question has been there since the creation of the first reactors in Belgium.Between 1960 and 1982, the only answer was to throw them at sea.Belgium has balanced 30.000 tonnes in the North Atlantic during 15 different operations.In 1972, an expert from the Nuclear Energy Study Center in Mol, a certain M.From Maere, claimed in this regard that: "The studies that have been done on this subject allow us to think that there is really strictly any danger".Ten years later, the story will give him wrong and the practice will be completely banished.