NIMBY

Facts from Will Atkins GRANTA piece

Suffolk Coastal gets half the national average of rainfall. Fast draining sandy soil. Farming region. A pressurised-water reactor needs steam and water. Millions of litres of water per minute are sucked into the station’s cooling system through giant tunnels.

EDF owns all of our nuclear power stations which is majority owned by the French state. EDF’s debt in £34 billion. The UK is its most important export market and it wouldn’t survive without us.

700 heavy goods vehicles a day.

What compensation do we get?

Where are my stable iodine tablets?

1380 acres engulfed.

It will ‘save 9 million tonnes of CO2 emissions every year’.

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