Dessel

Dessel is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises only the town of Dessel proper. On January 1, 2006 Dessel had a total population of 8,773 inhabitants. The total area is 27.03 km² which gives a population density of 325 inhabitants per km².

The town has two football clubs:

• KFC Witgoor Sport, which plays in the Belgian Fourth Division.
• K.F.C. Dessel Sport, which plays in the Belgian Third Division.

Nuclear industries

Dessel hosts on his land several nuclear facilities:

• Belgoprocess, ex Eurochemic reprocessing plant (OECD), now in charge of the operational waste management for Ondraf/Niras.
• BelgoNucléaire, an ancient MOX factory, presently stopped and to be decommissionned in the future.
• Franco-Belge de Fabrication des Combustibles (FBFC) making nuclear fuel assemblies;
• The Dessel site was selected in June 2006 by the Belgian government to construct the first shallow land disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste in Belgium. The decision was taken after consultation of the local authorities and the population in the frame of the Stola consultation group.

Events

• Graspop Metal Meeting, yearly heavy metal music festival

References

External links

• Official website - Available only in Dutch
• Eurochemic
• Eurochemic 1956-1990, European Company for the Chemical Processing of Irradiated Fuels, Jean-Marc Wolff, OECD Historical Series, 1999