Sizewell C nuclear power station could ‘suck up over 500 million fish’ and harm species including otters and rare natterjack toads, campaigners warn. A local campaign group has described the potential impact as “wholesale carnage”, while the RSPB has said the loss of fish will impact terns and red throated divers, while the development of the power station could also badly impact otters, water voles, marsh harriers, bats and rare natterjack toads. The campaign group Together Against Sizewell C (Tasc), used figures taken from EDF’s planning documents to calculate the numbers of fish which could be sucked into the cooling mechanism over a 20-year period, between 2035 and 2055. This time frame is the assumed start date for Sizewell C and when Sizewell B is expected to cease operations. Tasc said: “In that 20-year period, an estimated 560 million fish will be sucked into (entrained) and impinged within the cooling systems of both plants, with a toll of 28.5 million fish every year.”
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