'Two to four' new reactors at Borssele

[Financieele Dagblad, 10 September] Peter Boerma, CEO of Delta, has said in an interview that he wants to see "two to four" new reactors at Borssele, with the first operating by 2016. Delta is the 50% owner of the single pressurized water reactor already at the site. Boerma said: "We already invest heavily in solar energy, but the full transition to renewable energy will see other forms of energy used in the meantime. Coal or nuclear energy? Then we opt for the latter." The company is beginning an environmental impact assessment for the current coalition government, which has no firm position on nuclear power. Dutch leaders abandoned a nuclear phase-out position in 2005 and in 2006 published certain conditions for new nuclear build, which would all be met by modern reactor designs.

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