Downsizing Sizewell

摘要

Life is slow in the picturesque village of Sizewell on the Suffolk coast. Dog walkers amble along its pebbly beach. Small fishing boats are pulled up to rest lazily on the shore. And a ramshackle tea hut provides sustenance for those happy to brave the elements. On most days it's a sedate place where the pressures of the modern world seem a million miles away. This one-paced existence all happens in the brooding shadow of the Sizewell A nuclear power station, which is situated a couple of hundred metres up the shore. Local residents don't seem to pay the power station much attention while it, in turn, hums gently as it generates electricity for the national grid. There appears to be peaceful co-existence between the two - and it's been this way for 40 years now.