Sea water will be pumped in via underground tunnels 2-3km (1.2 to 1.8 miles) in length to cool the two nuclear reactors and then back to the BristolChannel.
But ex- Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Lord German said the scheme came with enormous costs to the environment and was a BristolChannel barrage than a Severn estuary one.
Bristol-Myers Squibb 's (nyse: BMY - news - people ) former chief financial officer and the former head of its drug business have been indicted in federal court in connection with alleged "channel stuffing" that led Bristol to have to restate its numbers repeatedly. ( Click here for a link to the indictment.) The indictment says that Frederick S. Schiff, the company's chief financial officer until April 2001, and Richard J.
Dolan also survived an accounting scandal relating to "channel stuffing, " in which Bristol gave incentives to drug wholesalers to temporarily juice sales.