A British nuclear power plant is on alert as a rapidly expanding wildfire threatens the facility, with concern changing weather over the course of the day could overwhelm air filters with smoke.
Sizewell B nuclear power plant in Suffolk, one of the few remaining operational plants in the United Kingdom and one which has only started to come back online this month after a two-month refuelling shutdown is just three miles away from a major wildfire burning on Dunwich Heath. French energy giant EDF, which owns the plant, has said it is “monitoring” the situation and for the time being the wind is blowing the smoke and driving the flames...
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