BBCHow many fish does a nuclear power station kill?
It sounds grisly, but for the engineers on the Somerset coast building Britain’s first nuclear power station in a generation, it’s an urgent question.
And for conservationists and local villagers on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire, it has become such an urgent question they filled a village hall to debate it.
Proposals for the sea-water cooling system at Hinkley Point C will see 44 tonnes of fish ingested and killed every year, according to EDF, the company building it.
EDF“This scheme will decimate fish stocks,” said Dave Seal, a wildlife campaigner.
“We already have lost 80% of our salmon, and half of the salmon that get…
