NRG en nucleair in het nieuws	Krantenartikelen

Zoeken in NRG krantenartikelen Civic Leaders Promote New Dutch Research Reactor NucNet news in brief Door: John Shepherd 8 juli 2004   The local council in the Dutch municipality of Zijpe -- home of Europe’s Petten research reactor -- is urging that a replacement be built when the current reactor reaches the end of its operational lifetime in around 2015. The council expressed its support for a replacement for the European Commission-owned high flux reactor in a meeting called to discuss future prospects for the municipality -- details of which were reported in the 8th July edition of one of the biggest regional newspapers in The Netherlands, the “Noordhollands Dagblad”. Support came from representatives of the main political parties and Labour Party council members suggested setting up a steering committee to give direction to the future development of the Petten research area. The reactor and adjacent laboratories form a so-called ‘medical valley’ on the North Sea coast of The Netherlands. Last year, an independent study by a Dutch government committee showed that a halt in operation of the Petten reactor of more than a month would lead to shortages of at least two medical isotopes, “affecting patients all over Europe” Source: Noordhollands Dagblad / Various Editor: John Shepherd, NucNet

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