Fish

Interesting to see the tone of this coverage!

 ‘Fish disco’ fiasco: £700m nuclear plan would save one salmon every
12 years. Customers face higher energy bills as a result of noise tests on
marine life at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the latest
example of infrastructure farce. The company building a new nuclear power
plant in Somerset has been forced to spend £700m protecting marine life
– including a “fish disco” which bombards animals with noise. The
cost of the measures at Hinkley Point C is more than the entire amount the
Government spends on protecting nature in England each year, but they are
forecast to save the life of only one salmon every 12 years. The price tag
for the “fish protection measures” at Hinkley is revealed in a new
review of why it is so difficult and expensive to build nuclear power in
the UK, commissioned by Sir Keir Starmer. The review’s authors, who are
pushing for a “radical” overhaul of nuclear regulation, highlighted it
as a case study of the extreme costs imposed on companies trying to expand
the country’s nuclear capacity – costs which are eventually passed on
to customers in the form of higher energy bills. EDF, the company building
Hinkley Point C, is implementing three different systems to protect fish
which would otherwise risk being sucked in to the plant’s cooling system.
The total cost is £700m, including £50m for an “acoustic fish
deterrent” – nicknamed a “fish disco” – emitting pulses of sound