Would you buy a house near a nuclear facility?

moneyistooshorttomention

Most people do have it - but I know there have been times where I've had to try (for one reason or another) to use one in a public library and one faces a series of hurdles:
- is the library open (often not)?
- is the library actually still there in the first place? (could be one of the ones that's been shut)
- other people also wanting to use computers and often one has to wait/go away

People are entitled not to have a computer if that's their wish. The reason for that may not be to do with lack of finances either - some people just don't wish to have one (I've been trying to persuade my parents for years for instance....).

davidmcn

Besides, who the heck is in the market for a property at Dungeness and has never heard of the power station? That would be an interesting claim - "I bought the property and it was only two years later I realised what the massive humming building next door was..."

diggingdude

To be honest I would rather live near one (though not in its shadow) than I would want to live by an airport, busy main road, chavs etc. Prices may stay high though as the families who have a member working there may well buy them.
Check what's living in the garden though. If they have super large bugs/insects thats the first sign of a disaster I believe so run away fast and let us know

unforeseen

At least a nuclear facility wouldn't stink as much as the Stanlow oil refinery and the other chemical works along that stretch of the Mersey.

Nuclear plants? No problems.
Oil refineries and chemical works? Think Buncefield & Bhopal.

Davesnave

Not everyone has disliked the contrast between the wild, open shore line and the concrete monolith sited at Dungeness:


https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/24/derek-jarman-garden-dungeness-alys-fowler



https://www.gardenvisit.com/gardens/derek_jarman_garden_prospect_cottage_dungeness

cajef

I lived for twenty years about eight miles from Sizewell and watched Sizewell B being built plus had several neighbours that worked there in the nuclear industry, TBH it was something I never thought about it was just a power station that was there.

AdrianC

I'd far rather live next door to a nuclear power station than a fossil or biofuel one. Far less freight road/rail traffic delivering fuel, for a start, as well as no combustion byproducts.

EachPenny

cajef wrote: »

I lived for twenty years about eight miles from Sizewell and watched Sizewell B being built plus had several neighbours that worked there in the nuclear industry, TBH it was something I never thought about it was just a power station that was there.

With the bonus the sea was slightly warmer for swimming at Sizewell

cajef

EachPenny wrote: »

With the bonus the sea was slightly warmer for swimming at Sizewell

Only if you wanted to glow in the dark.:D

KxMx

I'd be concerned about traffic, and potential construction noise should they decide to expand or otherwise need to do major works. If it was an emergency job it'd probably go on all day and all night.

I live near a school which was never any problem, until they did demolition and new building
works which over ran by 18 months!