 The things I do to make these youtubers look at this. You can see how deep it is. I'm in nearly a foot of water Hello, thank you for joining me. You can see I'm standing by the sea. This is the Suffolk coast Quite a pleasant place even on a rainy day like today I've wanted to come here today because well, there's two things. There's something just up here, which fascinates me and also Quite soon, there's probably going to be one of the biggest building sites in Europe here along this coast So you look this way Little village fishing village You're maybe starting to guess where I am because if we turn right round, let's say just you know typical little fishing village And then there are size well A and B nuclear power stations Now the plan is to also build size well C nuclear power station, which will be further down there So this is size well A the old magnox reactor not in use anymore the big dome that size well B That's a pressurized water reactor which is at the moment producing about 3% of the country's electricity So that's probably powering all of the homes in Norfolk Suffolk and Essex. I'm going to go for a walk off inland We're going to go around and then we're going to end up further down We're going to walk past the site of where size well C is going to be built And we'll have a look because there's all this talk of it being right next to a nature reserve I just want to go and observe it all by myself So let's go for a walk in the rain around the boundary of size well So there's a walk away from the sea As in the actual scene, not a size well A over there So I'll show you the fishing village the hamlet I suppose it is of size well. This is basically it Quite pleasant. There was a pub around the corner. So we're going to have a look at that pretty bit early for a pint As for so it goes obviously size well A size well B size well C I don't know pretty going a bit too far into the future Is there going to be a size well D, E, E, E, F, G, etc. etc, etc I don't know about that, but if we go down the alphabet quite a bit, I'll tell you what there is There is a size well T Little T room. It's called size well T, which I think is quite a cool nice quite a cool nice name Unfortunately through T room fashion, it's not open. I suppose they're thinking this kind of weather Not many people are going to be as mad as me and come here on rainy day Up the road is Leaston the town of Leaston, which is known for it's well I used to build steam engines as in tractor engines. I remember going to Longshot Museum a few years ago We're actually Going back to our family holiday. I went on in about 2002 Bear in mind we didn't have internet and all those things then I was fascinated by the idea of nuclear power stations I've only seen one or two pictures in books. We'd had from the library. I didn't know much about them So I wanted to come see them. So I persuaded my parents. We went the first we went to Leaston To Leaston went to the Longshot Museum I persuaded them to drive here just so I could see the nuclear power station Funny enough a few years later. I was on a geography trip to mine head how I did it I thought well I've persuaded my teacher to stop the coach so I could get out and take a picture of Hinkley Point nuclear power station Funny enough, that's where the other C is being built. They've built Hinkley Point C nuclear power station Which is going to be very similar to size or C. Anyway, I'm going to head on up there I don't really want to film as a walk past the entrance of the power station just in case I You know race and security concerns past the pub and then we're going to go out into the country We should get some different views of the power station We can have a little bit of a talk about nuclear power engine I'm now just walking past the entrance of the power station and I wanted to show you this is the pub The Vulcan arms. So you have a drink in size. Well, you can and then You know, I'm just see size. Well, that is the entrance of the power station Looking ahead. I can see the cameras. We're not picking it out, but I can see a row of pilot You can see various vehicles coming in and out of the site. So what I'm going to do I'm not gonna do any more recording now. I want to get one up to the footpath get away from civilization So I have now turned off the road and I've come down this nice little track and I'm away From where it seems everyone but they're on daylight today Who else is mad enough to go for a walk around a nuclear power station? We get quite a good view after this heads there's that of size well a And if we go up here You can see There's size well a this building here. I think that's probably the old turbine hall So they're in there are two magnet reactors graphite reactors Gas circles up through the gas heats up that goes for a heat exchanger Which heats the water boils the water to make steam to power the turbines over there You can just just about see it is size. Well be that's a pressurized water reactor a very different form of Nuclear reactor. We'll talk more about that later. I've noticed you can see now There's the pylons and just through here this seems to be there's a huge substation and then That's where the electricity goes off down that line of pylons to your houses if you live in Norfolk Suffolk or Essex I'm going to continue down here Get one more view of the power station I've noticed how size well be blend so well with the land and I've noticed that most of the buildings are blue And the dome is white. So maybe that's deliberate to be like the sea in the sky There you go There's a good view off size. Well a I'm gonna continue off down there and see where my walk will take me I'm now probably about a mile and a half away from size Well, I've walked inland as I said, and I'm heading north, but I've just come across There is sensing and about there for a bit not film passing there But across the road or a road under construction. So it looks as though The spades are in the ground Whether the actual power station construction started yet. If you have a look here It's a bit like I'm in my area where they build an HS2. It's not HS2, but that is the road Probably two sides or C So it appears something's happening. I always think it'd been good if they could have extended the railway line Which goes to Leicester and which was for the nuclear flask trains as when size will a was in operation so size will a was in operation for 40 years from 1966 to 2006 size will a was generating and The fuel would have been taken away by a train probably to Sellafield It's where a lot of the spent fuel from nuclear power station. Let's go Now with size will be the field doesn't leave the site. It's Permanently stored the spent fuel is permanently stored on the site So you don't get the nuclear flask trains interestingly though as I'm away here part through Leicester and as I mentioned the village and There was a mom a mobile operations man for Network Rail walking along the line to the line Although it very rarely sees trains. It isn't actually closed I think your charter train has been down there get these infused just trains I think just try and get on moment. I think there has been the odd one down there so and laced and seemed like you know be nice to Lace the station still there look Pictures I took if I did this walk. So, you know, it'd be nice to reopen The station and give place them a passenger service again. Anyway, I'm gonna continue. It's rather bleak Not particularly exciting path another interesting thing. I'm doing nuclear power stations And look at these either elm trees and hope you'll think but they don't have it They've all died of that germ disease they grow and Then they die they get to a certain height and then the beetles attack and they die anyway I continue off down there. I'm gonna loop round back to the sea Was in the water see and walk towards where they're gonna build the nuclear power station see I just had a very pleasant midwalk point here at the L's foot in so if you're out this way Nice little pub to stop at it has fun enough because we're in the area I suppose it makes sense. But look Adams Beer, but a very nice partner now off and see it around. So it's nice to have it in its local area This is the village of Eastbridge. There's not a lot here Few houses We're probably about a mile or so inland. I'm gonna go down here up here. I should find a foot bath They'll take me back to the sea and then we'll walk back towards sizable Given up trying to keep my feet dry Yeah, very wet and Flooded out there All over where you see the cows and the bank over there behind that bank is the mincemears sluice I think that's meant to take the water out to sea, but as you can see it's all around us here Well, the things I do to make these youtubers look at this you can see how deep it is I'm in nearly a foot of water and you should have done this walk a couple of weeks ago before the rain But well anyway, I'm here now I'm determined to get out to where the sea is if I was to go back now It would just be well, I've got wet so I'm not gonna get any less wet or dryer It was a couple of ladies. I overtook them just there. They sensibly are waiting back there They've decided not to proceed any further, but I'm not always sensible, especially when it comes to making these videos So I'm just gonna wade through here and Get wet, but then I've got quite a nice walk Along the coast. I hope when I eventually Up there somewhere get back on to terra firma Well, I've just about got back on to dry land. I'm hoping not to do any more wading today But well, we'll have to see what happens. I want to show you this here So this is the mincemear nature reserve now a lot of the time when people talk about the building of size well see understandably people are concerned about you know the Local impact on the environment now this nature reserve most of this won't be touched So there's nothing to worry about there just looking I think the water would have been a higher if I come a few days ago because you can just see all this duckweed Up here. So I think the water was a lot worse. It probably would have been over my knees and if I'd come here Well last week, maybe I don't know. I am just glad to be walking on dry land So that way is looking north So the construction of the power station there will be you know a lot of lorries and everything I think it'd be more sensible if they built a railway like because you've already got the railway to Layston Just built like a branch of it Layston railway originally went to Albra was a normal passenger line And then it's been retained For the nuclear flash traffic in and out of size will a if they built a railway a lot of the Construction traffic could come by train and Layston could get a railway station again You know it'd be always will support the idea of any place getting a road station Especially there's no houses built over the line as far as Layston because it's all intact So I understand like locals when they build size will see there will be a lot of disruption a lot of extra lorries and road movements, but if you built the railway as well with it that could you know Alleviate some of that. I don't know if that's the actual plan I'm now going to continue from away up here get me to the sea And then the sea not so I don't see the interest do is walk perhaps in a few years time when they start building Size will see when I've been I've done a few trips the West some set railway In the distance I can see the construction of Hinkley point C and just see a load of cranes It's all quite impressive It'd be interesting to see what other nuclear power stations do get built in the UK in the future Probably after this one. I've put my money on it possibly being Bradwell be further down the coast in Essex There's the Bradwell nuclear power station Again a Magnoc reactor knock way. It's finished. It's Operational life has ended. Let's talk of building Bradwell be whether Bradwell be will be the generation of Hinkley point And size well see but because it never was a hasn't till now been a Bradwell be and whether they'll ever be one possibly at Wilver in Anglesey it seems to have been shelf, but it may well come back possibly another one up in Cumbria Could be built in the future possibly although probably the least likely one The cow that's cow saying he agrees or doesn't agree cows making a noise Possibly another one Aubrey on the 7s because you've already got to you've already got Barkley and Aubrey, but both are now No longer generating, but I think that's probably the least likely of any future nuclear power stations in Britain It's interesting if you look to look at Europe how it's going for a change this year Germany switched off its final three nuclear power stations to Germany no longer uses nuclear the French are still very proud of Nuclear power stations and they will point they love pointing them out to tourists But the moment you take a picture they accuse you of being a spy. I think that's just typical French humor for you I think Poland's is due to build a nuclear power station. They've not had any up till now. There is a Partially built one somewhere. I'd have to go have a look at that bit. It was never finished hungry is Just signed off. Well a while ago now pucks to so you've got the pucks nuclear power station hungry to building a second one There and I think they're a further more advanced stage in this they are cropping up all over Europe often on different sites I mean most of those countries we're talking about They're building them not by the sea and land of Hungary for example is landlocked anyway So that isn't going to be why I sit down near Zanyub as for me getting to the sea I've got at least another half a mile to go looking across nature of tea walking and we'll find ourself on the coast No again look at me back In the water Let's open this gate now. It seems ridiculous opening a gate opening a gate in the water Let's shut it quickly just in case you can get out The things I do sometimes videos. I really didn't expect it to be this bad. I knew yes I didn't expect this if you're thinking of doing this walk. It's a really nice walk Um, don't come off. There's been a lot of rain because you're gonna Well, I've got no choice now. It's got to keep walking. I Should have worn wellies. I think they've had one where is it might have gone over the top. So Yeah, what can I do? Anyway, let's go and find the coast I'm glad to have come to a slightly higher ground and we're gonna take a bit of a break from nuclear power for a moment Let's have a look at something a bit more historic This little chapel here now this I understand was part of Leicester Naby. Now Leicester Naby is Obviously near Leicester. I did go there as a child once when we were on a family holiday up there So it's quite interesting room to have you. I don't think I'll go there today. I understand this was Yeah, one of their outlaying chapels. It's interesting. I've never seen anything like this before so as we come into the chapel They appear to have well firstly, look there's a new Window someone's been there's a bit of pillbox in the chapel. Let's just go and have a look in here I can't get through that The rucksack on the back of the camera on it. I couldn't get around the corner No, so this is inside of the chapel on the chapel the pillbox inside the chapel And we're inside the pillbox so confusing I know There's one of the windows and a shot out of going outside so it isn't actually built it He is a building in its own right of free. They've built a wall inside. They haven't used the chapel walls Completely built it inside. Let's go back Into the chapel Yeah, so there's It's always ever lentil This side Even more complete Have a look at that. I hope I haven't got any more water. You never quite know what you're doing in these videos. Yeah, look at that See the whole of the chapel now That's interesting That's where we were a moment ago. See what was probably a door to the chapel You can see how they built the pillbox inside. So that's Break the nuclear power bit of history. I've got far more way across the marshes seas about quarter of a mile or so I ended up getting my feet wet yet again. Anyway, I'm on the dry land now. That's the mincemear sluice You can see there's nature reserves and Here's the sea So I'm definitely not going paddling because I've done enough paddling Which I hadn't even planned to do You know I've been paddling good down to beach there So I must be self-hold just up down there. I remember going there once as a child and then Dominating the horizon is Can we get a bit closer up there? I'll have a look see if we can see The site of where C is going to be or see if any groundwork has started taking place We'll just have a look at the two power sources. I don't think it's quite fascinating There's that there generating all that power I've been walking for about a mile now along the beach See sort of mini cliffs Sides will be no escaping that we get to here I think we've come to the edge of the what become the size well see site You can also walk along here. It's just easy to walk on that on the sand. So see as a fence there. There's two men in Full orange so that must be all of that must be where size will see do you prepare station to be obviously right next to next to be in a That's a there So it's interesting how B is the dome is white and then the building is blue whether that's to blend it in with the See in the sky. I'm not sure if that's how the architects thought about it We'll continue now down here And very soon we'll be walking right past the two existing power stations I've been walking for a fair bit now along the coast and as I've mentioned, this is all the size well see site And then there's B and A So that is where I imagine the whole new power station gonna be there It's gonna have a pretty big footprint than you size will see I've seen it's gonna be nearly the size Of size what a and B put together so there's gonna be two pressurized water reactors at the moment Size will be is the only pressurized water reactor. We have in the UK All of the others are advanced gas called reactors size well There was a magnet reactor so Magnot reactors and advanced gas called reactors are similar the advanced gas called reactors are a development of the Magnot Reactor so they're built at a graphite with them lots of channels which the fuel rods go in so these little Uranium pellets, which pretty only about this big, but they have a lot of energy they a store they go down in these fuel rods and The graphite acts as the moderator the gas I don't quite get how the nuclear reaction works, but the nuclear reaction takes place the gas warms up and Worms the water in a pressurized water reactor you have water as the moderator not graphite and but the water That's that I've never quite get it, but the water flows through and under a high pressure heats up, but then it goes through like a Separated drum I think it's on the other side that water heats up into steam So that's like on another circuit. So you've got two closed circuits And then there's a third circuit goes out into the sea which maybe I'll see those gantries I think that's where the water comes in and out the sea that's used for cooling I think they have also got these on the building here has like cooling fans inside Exactly how it works But that would be inside there another thing Phil I should mention Which quite often crops up by people who perhaps don't know too much about nuclear power stations whenever there's talk of Building a new nuclear power station because oh, well, we don't want that because there might be another Chernobyl incident Well, it's not possible in the same color. Well, I'm not saying it's impossible for anything to go wrong What happened at Chernobyl you could not do in a power station like this Now Chernobyl reactor was similar to the Magnox reactors in has made a graphite, but it had water water flowed through and The water heated up and there was no pressure vessel. These reactors have pressure vessels inside There was no pressure vessel meant you it was more efficient in you could You could refuel the plant when it was at full power with size well be It'll run for 18 months They'll switch the power off and then they'll take out the field assemblies and refuel the reactor What happened with Chernobyl was that it was It basically ran away of itself. It got hotter and hotter and hotter There's various videos on YouTube you'll see about it to the point it ran away with itself as a dog running towards me and parking So it ran away of itself and it got hotter and hotter to the point that just before the explosion It was producing enough heat probably to power the whole of Russia and Ukraine I just couldn't handle the energy That building here is very, very strong. The aeroplane flew into that. The aeroplane simply disintegrated the building Would remain standing. That is incredibly strong. The Western reactors are basically stable They can't run away from themselves in the same way and Chernobyl wasn't a meltdown fever It was a meltdown of three mile islands. Now that was all contained within the reactor building The second reactor was built in 2019 So it was open here going up to Chernobyl So, yeah, it's very, very important technology in these two power stations to what you had in Chernobyl It shouldn't be too far down. I'm glad the sun's come up because it won't rain I didn't realise we'd be able to get this close so It's size will be, it's a big iconic dome and it's size will be And it's now, I'm starting to realise just how big the building is So that's where the two reactors were So I think there's been one here, the other ones behind So the reactors will still be there. They're just not generating And I think I might be wrong but I think that's possibly the turbine hall I've heard that might be due to be demolished quite soon So I have to wait and see It's hard to sort of convey just how big and vast this site is I personally prefer the older Magnox reactors Actually, the actual size of the reactors The reactors in there are probably about ten times the size of the reactor in big The advanced gas core reactors are pretty large But it seems they've got two reactors in there For the two pressurised water reactors that they're going to build Size will see down there It seems the site, okay, it's two power stations but for two reactors Here we've got three reactors in a much smaller size Actually, there's one or two things I want to have a look at There's something here now I think there used to be a gantry here from some research that did Where the spent fuel would have been taken out They must have been taken by Laurie to the railhead at Leiston That was taken away by train I don't think we were able to see in there But I think in there there's like these giant wheels They won't be turning anymore because power stations are not in operation But they would return any fish So if the water's brought in from the North Sea To ensure no fish or any other creatures get inside This huge wheel would turn There'd be another one down there that size will be And that would turn and ensure everything's returned Back to the sea As I said, I have a feeling that structure I think there must be something to do with the power stations I think that pretty much brings me to the end of today's walk It's been about nearly a seven mile walk around the two power stations Hope you enjoyed it I've had fun despite getting wet So thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment And from Sizewell Nuclear Power Station Goodbye