Civil engineering for ONDRAF/NIRAS' surface disposal facility in Dessel will be carried out by the NucleusSafe partnership, with construction company Denys responsible for electromechanical aspects. Work is to begin later this year.

Belgium's federal parliament has voted by a large majority to repeal a 2003 law for the phase-out of nuclear power and banning the construction of new nuclear generating capacity. Meanwhile, the Danish parliament has approved an analysis of the potential use of nuclear, which has been banned for the past 40 years.

Belgium's Nuclear Research Centre and the national nuclear regulator have announced the start of a formal preliminary consultation on an innovative small modular reactor using lead-cooled technology.

The first container has been filled with long-lived low- and intermediate-level waste from the used fuel pools of unit 3 at Belgium's Doel nuclear power plant, which was shut down in September 2022 and is now being decommissioned.

The Belgian government and French utility Engie have closed the agreement covering the extension of the operation of the Tihange 3 and Doel 4 nuclear power reactors by 10 years and on all obligations related to radioactive waste.

The European Commission has concluded its in-depth investigation and approved revised plans for Belgium's proposed financing of the lifetime extensions of Doel 4 and Tihange 3 nuclear power units.

Unit 1 of the Doel nuclear power plant has been taken offline for the final time after 50 years of operation and disconnected from the grid. Its closure is in line with Belgium's 2003 nuclear phase-out policy, under which two other reactors have already been shut down.

A new European research project, named EU-CONVERSION, has been launched with the aim of accelerating the conversion of high-performance research reactors by testing candidate low-enriched uranium fissile materials.

Belgium's new coalition government has announced plans to continue operating two of the country's reactors for an additional 10 years beyond the 10-year extension already agreed - and said it aims to construct new reactors.