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How will they supply the massive amount of power required?



No one talks about the huge amount of electrical energy needed to power the site. Once you go underground machinery powered by internal combustion engines cannot be used because of the exhaust fumes. Everything has to be electric. Tunnel boring machines, Trains to transport the waste, hoists and moving machines, All have to be powered by electricity. This creates a power demand that few of us can imagine. The local Power grid couldn't supply the meagre needs of the gas terminal. They had to burn gas to generate their power. The proposed site would house an emergency power supply capable of supplying sufficient power to support life and evacuate the underground workings, so where will the necessary power come from? The nearest substation that would support that demand is Grimsby West, thirty miles of overhead power lines carried on pylons or an even longer power line buried in fields from Theddlethorpe to Grimsby.

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Electricity has been transmitted from Denmark to Lincolnshire. No pylons. 200+ miles under the sea. Pylons to Norfolk it is a shorter to go by sea. Bury the cables we know how to do it. After all if it's safe to bury nuclear waste then cables must be a cinch.

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smithkeng
Feb 12
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Dr Paul Dorfman, former nuclear adviser to the government describes the idea of locating a nuclear dump at Theddlethorpe or South Holderness as total madness.

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This devastating information needs to be circulated more widely- most people will be ignorant of the facts and taken in by the whitewash and bribes. Do we have a local minor celebrity to champion the cause?

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smithkeng
Feb 12
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The French have just published the power requirements of the site that they are building. They say they will require 750 Megawatts hours. That's enough to power 125,000 homes. That's a city twice the size of Lincoln. can't do that without pretty big cables

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