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27 January 2010
This week's heart-warming story must be the tale of the power station staff who came to the aid of a colony of rare birds.
Staff at Sizewell B have been providing fish for 51 bitterns by filtering them from the seawater that is brought in and used to cool the turbines.
The birds normally feed in reed beds near Southwold, but the wetland area has been frozen over. Alan Miller of the Suffolk Wildlife Trust said the birds had been seriously under threat. "The severe frost was life-threatening for the fish-eating birds.
"Thanks to the swift response from staff at Sizewell B, we have been able to help local birds survive some of the coldest temperatures we have seen in the county in years."
Seawater is drawn into Sizewell B through a concrete tunnel offshore at a rate of 3.1 million litres a minute. The water is normally filtered to remove any fish, which are returned to the sea.
During the cold weather, the Environment Agency allowed the power station to keep the fish and give them to the Wildlife Trust.
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