NUCLEAR POWER DEATHS
December 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL and PHILIP FINE
MILLIONS of fish die annually at the hands of ageing power station water outfalls, when new technology could save many of their lives, marine biologists say.
Dr Peter Henderson, of Britain's Pisces Conservation Ltd, says whiting, sprat, cod, pout, rockling, stickleback, pipefish, sea-trout and salmon are among the species at risk; seals have died too, although not for many years. In a paper based on available statistics for 33 British and continental North Sea and English Channel power stations, he estimates 570 million fish ...
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