08/06/2016 (Agence Europe) - Dutch Parliament wants to close two Belgian nuclear reactors. On Tuesday 7 June, Dutch MPs (House of Representatives) adopted a text calling on the government to urge Belgium to close down its Doel-3 and Tihange-2 nuclear reactors near the Netherlands. Security concerns about these reactors have provoked much controversy. The Dutch Minister for Infrastructure, Mélanie Schultz van Haegen, expressed her country's "serious" concerns about the Belgian nuclear industry, last January. Last week she justified the Netherlands' refusal to request that Belgium close down the suspect nuclear plants because there was no legal basis to do so. In April, Germany and Luxembourg called for the temporary closure of the two suspect reactors whose tanks have displayed thousands of minute cracks, whilst awaiting further tests. Belgium's nuclear safety control agency (AFCN) said that its plants met the "strictest" safety requirements and that there was "absolutely no reason" to give in to the demands to close them down. (EH)