Is No Price Too High for Our Electricity? ; T's a Place Where Gulls Go to Be Lonely. Or Used to Be. For the Past 40 Years the Low Coastal Hill That Rises Out of the Flat North Quantock Clay-Lands has Played Host to One of the Biggest Nuclear Generation Complexes in the Country.

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T's a place where gulls go to be lonely. Or used to be. For the past 40 years the low coastal hill that rises out of the flat north Quantock clay-lands has played host to one of the biggest nuclear generation complexes in the country.

In those four decades, thousands of local people have made a good living out of the place and bucket loads of megawatts have been shoved into the National Grid.

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Is No Price Too High for Our Electricity? ; T's a Place Where Gulls Go to Be Lonely. Or Used to Be. For the Past 40 Years the Low Coastal Hill That Rises Out of the Flat North Quantock Clay-Lands has Played Host to One of the Biggest Nuclear Generation Complexes in the Country.

The gulls are still there, but they're not very lonely. And soon they'll have even more company if the French energy giant EDF has its way.

Flocks of new workers will pour into the area to build the massive new reactors which the company is planning for Hinkley Point.

More jobs, more elect...

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