Climate Change will impact our ability to operate Nuclear Power Stations, since they all rely on water for cooling, and the actual height of the water, in the seas and rivers, could start to become very random and unpredictable... Actually, it's happening already :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6292973.stm At Sizewell in Suffolk, for example, site of Britain's most modern reactor, the prediction is for the most severe storm surges to be 1.7 metres higher in 2080 than at present. And at Dungeness in Kent, the storm surge increase could be up to 0.9 metres. Already the Dungeness plant, which is sited on land only two metres above sea-level, is protected by a massive wall of shingle which needs constant maintenance in the winter. Waves erode so much of it that it needs to be topped up constantly with 600 tons of shingle every day. =x=x=x=x=x=x=x= Yes, that's right. That's a lot of shingle. Would make quite a large front path. |
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Dungeness
A big problem at Dungeness is that long shore drift is steadily moving the cape towards the northeast, but in their infinite wisdom they built the nuclear plants by the southern shore, so they are having to keep carting shingle back round from the eastern limb.
There is an analogous problem at Orford Ness, Suffolk, where the shingle cape is moving south with long shore drift so they buried lots of military waste there last century, I think chemical weapons residue and possibly nuclear waste.