Posted on 04/28/2025 6:08:19 AM PDT by george76
Workers at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant construction site in the UK have reported a significant rat infestation, raising health and safety concerns.
The rat problem is causing disruption to the major energy project and prompting calls for immediate action from trade unions to address the issue.
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The U.K. has ambitious nuclear power plans and is developing several small- and large-scale projects. While opposition, high costs, and other factors have slowed development in the past, EDF has been facing another problem at its Hinkley Point C construction – a rat infestation.
In early April, the Unite and GMB trade unions for workers at Hinkley Point C in Somerset, in the south of England, informed the developer, French energy giant EDF, that the facility was overrun with rats. The unions said that immediate action was needed as the rodents were “everywhere” and the rapidly expanding rat population prompted health and safety concerns for the workforce.
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The development of Hinkley Point C is expected to support the creation of 15,000 jobs. Once complete, the plant is expected to power around 6 million U.K. homes and contribute 7 percent of the country’s electricity needs. It is planned to launch in the early 2030s, following several years of delays and spiralling costs. However, many believe this is an unrealistic aim. In recent months, workers have complained about poor working conditions and low pay, potentially because of EDF’s financial pressures. Hundreds of project staff also went on strike in November over the inadequate security access to the site.
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We have a “Rat”infestation here in the U.S. too. But we have had some success in beating them at the polls.
demonRATS infect and corrode everything
I’ve seen this movie on he Saturday Creaure Feature: “Attack of the Atomic Rats.”
Workers and leftover food or they’re feeding the rats ,LOL
Woosies- DC has been infested by rats for much long time, and people still manage to go to work there
the real surprise is that the
uk is building nuclear plants
They need to turn loose a lot of moggies on them.
Some electric cables now have insulation made with vegetable or soybean oil. Animals like rats and mice love to chew through them.
Bring in teams of rat terriers.
They need a big pack of rat killing terrier dogs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratter_(dog)
The Guinness Book of World Records lists as the “fastest canine rat catcher” a bull-and-terrier dog named Billy, who killed 100 rats in 5 minutes 30 seconds (average of one rat every 3.3 seconds) at an event in 1825. Guinness also credits Billy with having killed 4000 rats within a 17-hour period (average of one rat every 15.3 seconds) on an unspecified occasion; other sources, including the 1993 edition of Atlas of Dog Breeds of the World, credit him with killing 2501 rats within a 7-hour period (average of one rat every 10 seconds)
Get a few dozen rat dogs. Not hard to figure out.
So the rats have been unionized?
Foreman: It’s like you have no nuclear plant training at all. We’re going to have to let you go.
Rat: But I don’t even work here.
Foreman: I know. That’s what makes this so difficult.
Calling out all kitties!
I would be happy to rent out my fierce mouser to help the cause. She and others of her ilk would have that place cleaned up of rats and mice very quickly.
Not long ago in the news there was a story about how rats kept eating through a guys gas tank in the Bay Area.
Willard!!!
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