a court appeal in belgium and would like to see the plant closed down officials say they aren t panic mongers. it s about a potential nuclear accident and taking the best possible disaster prevention measures for. andrea companies us on the seventy kilometer journey to the controversial nuclear facility she can t believe people live so close. i can imagine living here i get a little queasy just thinking i live in auckland though it s quite a few kilometers away. i d move away from there. cracks have been found in twos reactor vessel the power plant has been shut down repeatedly over safety concerns belgium has also distributed pills but the belgian nuclear control agency says its plants are safe where you are insured it was safe they were stopped or stopped for more than two years until they could prove so now