{"id":9177,"date":"2011-03-14T11:58:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T09:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9177"},"modified":"2011-03-14T18:15:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T16:15:44","slug":"its-not-ok-we-dont-have-tsunamis-we-have-tidal-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/03\/14\/its-not-ok-we-dont-have-tsunamis-we-have-tidal-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not OK &#8211; we don&#8217;t have tsunamis &#8211; we have tidal surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have noticed that UK discussion on the threat from nuclear power in the wake of the Japanese crisis concentrates on reactor design. I have yet to see discussion of the combination of environmental threat combining with nuclear risk creating a UK crisis.<\/p>\n<p>But it could, very easily. I have always found it bizarre, for example, tat the UK has two nuclear power stations at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sizewell\">Sizewell<\/a>. Sizewell is next to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunwich\">Dunwich<\/a> - once a major East Anglian town, now lost under the sea due to coastal erosion and sea surges.<\/p>\n<p>Sea surges are predictable in the UK. The last <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/7086175.stm\">was in 2007<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Sea_flood_of_1953\">last major one was in 1953<\/a>. The impact then was above 5 metres in places.<\/p>\n<p>Is Sizewell able to take that impact? I don't know. But candidly - I doubt it, and always have. Canute failed. I don't see how modern nuclear engineers can succeed in stopping the sea either.<\/p>\n<p>This is not just an issue for Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have noticed that UK discussion on the threat from nuclear power in the wake of the Japanese crisis concentrates on reactor design. I have<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/03\/14\/its-not-ok-we-dont-have-tsunamis-we-have-tidal-surges\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}