Scientists have revealed what would happen if the out-of-control Suffolk wildfires reached the Sizewell B nuclear power station, as firefighters continue battling the blaze.
The inferno has already forced holidaymakers to flee campsites and prompted a major emergency response after flames spread across large areas of heathland near the coast.
The nuclear site has been placed on high alert as a precaution, although experts stress there is currently no indication that the reactor itself is under threat.
Professor Joel Turner, Rolls-Royce Chair in Nuclear Fuel Technology at the University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute, said placing the station on high alert was ‘a
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