The Place Where I Worked Bradwell Nuclear Power Station

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@camresearch5120 4 ай бұрын

My grandfather helped design some of these early reactors. I am amazed at the primitive technology used and the wrong materials... Cringe at what they built without the better understanding of neutron induced corrosion etc understanding we have now. These were rushed jobs... There should have been more research and less frantic plutonium production.

@dangruner5926 Күн бұрын

Back when Britain was great..!

@simonuden8450 2 ай бұрын

Despite a few local people (and not so local) who mounted a continuous campaign against Bradwell during its operation, it was extremely popular with the vast majority of the local community. This was especially so when it came to the fishing community, who benefited from the power station. In the first instance, the constant warm cooling water discharge encouraged the local oysters to grow larger than elsewhere. In addition, the boiler houses on the North and South side of each reactor building were clad in glass panels and, at night, the entire height was lit for safety, meaning that the power station formed a landmark for vessels returning from the North Sea and the English Channel. Many people who worked at the power station lived locally and I, while I was there during the decommissioning phase, lived in rented accommodation there. Bradwell had been shortlisted as one of the potential sites for one of the new Nuclear power stations, but it was felt that the water in the estuary was not cold enough, and that any new plants should be built either on an exposed sea cost or, like Hinkley Point, on the wider part of an estuary.

@BrodyLuv2 Ай бұрын

Warm spent fuel pond water induced Oyster production is not a good thing man. I appreciate your comment though and that is quite something that you worked in decommissioning the site .

@simonuden8450 Ай бұрын

@@BrodyLuv2 where do you get the idea that it was spent fuel pond water? The water that was discharged into the Blackwater was sea water that had been pumped through the condensers to cool the steam back to water after it had been through the turbines, and before it was fed back into the boilers. There was no contamination in that cooling water, and the cooling ponds that you refer to were never discharged into the estuary.

@BrodyLuv2 Ай бұрын

@@simonuden8450 Sorry, I clearly misread your comment.

@BrodyLuv2 Ай бұрын

@@simonuden8450 I really must been in a daze, I do not know how I concluded that as it makes no sense.. I had been awake a couple days and had in previous hours watched stuff on the 4 ex units at Fukushima so can only surmise I was in a no sleep stupor and commented nonsense at you, excuse me man 🙎

@simonuden8450 Ай бұрын

@@BrodyLuv2 hey, no worries. I don’t fully understand the entire process, as I was crap at chemistry at school. What I do know is that there are a set of site licence conditions for every nuclear power station in the uk and, if even just a single one of those conditions cannot be met, then the reactors must be shut down. I started at Bradwell after it had ceased generation and was defuelling. One of the SLCs specified that until every last fuel rod had been removed, checked against the register and sent back to Sellafield, the entire cooling system had to remain operational and in a state of readiness, even beyond the point where there was insufficient fuel left in the reactor to, well, react.