Dessel is a municipality

Municipality

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 located in the Belgian

Belgium

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 province of Antwerp

Antwerp (province)

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. 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

Population density

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 of 325 inhabitants per km².

The town has two football

Football (soccer)

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 clubs:

• KFC Witgoor Sport, which plays in the Belgian Fourth Division.
• K.F.C. Dessel Sport
  K.F.C. Dessel Sport
  K.F.C. Dessel Sport is a Belgian association football club, from the municipality of Dessel in Antwerp .- Current squad :- Notable coaches :* André Rooymans * Alfons Leysen...
  
  , 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
  Franco-Belge de Fabrication des Combustibles
  FBFC is a nuclear fuel producing company located in Romans-sur-Isère in France and Dessel in Belgium. FBFC is a subsidiary of Areva. In Dessel work around 150 people....
  
   (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
  Graspop Metal Meeting
  Graspop Metal Meeting is an annual metal festival in Dessel, Belgium that has taken place each year since 1996. Despite the small size of the festival grounds the festival draws a large number of international spectators, with a total of 142,000 visitors in the course of the 2011 edition...
  
  , yearly heavy metal music
  Heavy metal music
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   festival

External links

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