If you’d just like to line up over here?
More than £700 million is being spent at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station on measures expected to save 0.083 salmon and 0.028 sea trout per year.
The plant in Somerset will have more “fish protection measures” than any other power station in the world when it opens because of strict planning conditions agreed by ministers.
Yes, you’re right, it is a long queue and no, there’re no refreshements. But then you’ll not need them. Might take a day or two but we will get there in the end, you all will have your personal appointment with the hangman.
Shame they don’t apply the same standards to bird choppers.
£700 million? So what, it’s only money. Yeah, other peoples’ money.
It’s years since I told this story. A colleague took a party of undergraduates to visit a power station. At the area where seawater was returned, warm, to the firth, he asked a worker what were the main operating problems in that area. “It’s the seals” said the bloke. My colleague turned to the students and said “He doesn’t mean the marine mammals he’s referring to devices to impede leakage along rotating shafts.”
“No” said the bloke “I mean the marine mammals. Warm water = fish = seals.”
Stands to reason. But that’s outflow, not intake. You’re not going to get fish trapped against gratings there; they’re being pushed away by the outflow current. Where’s the problem? Radioactive fish?
Seal population explodes, causing other problems I guess. Rather like too many seagulls, but less likely to be overhead.
The problem was seals swimming into the water discharge pipes and getting stuck.
Bigger pipes, then, unless the problem becomes dolphins, walruses, orcas and blue whales.
One of the S Florida nukes has to erest barriers to keep the manatees away from the copious vegetation flourishing near the outflow pipes.
( Cant remember which one)
Is there any likelihood of Hinckley Point C ever delivering power, or is it working as designed already like HS2?