On Monday, 30 students for Year 9 took an early coach to Sizewell B Nuclear power station in Suffolk on a joint Science/Humanities visit to look at the workings and the benefits of nuclear power as a green solution to help achieve Net Zero by 2050.
The photo shows the group getting ready to undertake the tour of the site on the North Sea coast, wearing protective clothing. The power station provides 3% of the electricity in the UK. A highlight was the enormous turbine hall, in which turbines, which are driven by a process of heat exchange through the nuclear reaction, revolve at twice the speed of sound to generate the electricity sent to the National grid.
Students were not sure about nuclear power as an environmentally friendly solution before the visit, but some had a more positive feeling about its possibilities because of its zero-carbon impact.
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