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Dungeness and nuclear
The line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe via Dymchurch, St. Mary's Bay, New Romney and Romney Sands to Dungeness, close to Dungeness nuclear power station and Dungeness lighthouse.
His illness prompted him to move to Prospect Cottage, Dungeness in Kent, near the nuclear power station.
Jarman is also remembered for his famous shingle cottage-garden, created in the latter years of his life, in the shadow of Dungeness nuclear power station.
movement in the United Kingdom started in 1990, when a group in Hastings, Sussex organised an action at Dungeness nuclear power station in Kent.
The harbour arm of Hastings is just visible at low tide, as is the nuclear power station at Dungeness a few miles further east.
The line is still in place about a mile short of Dungeness and is used to transfer waste from the nuclear power plant.
In 2012 these include freightliner trains ( Isle of Grain ), gypsum ( Hothfield ), aggregates ( Angerstein Wharf ) and nuclear material ( Dungeness ).
* Fairey Nuclear Ltd, Heston, Nuclear components and light engineering ; see also Dungeness nuclear power station
* Dungeness A nuclear power station ( shut down in 2006 )
Destinations served include the UK nuclear power stations at Heysham, Valley ( for Wylfa ), Bridgwater ( for Hinkley Point ), Berkeley ( for Oldbury ), Hunterston, Torness, Seaton-on-Tees, Dungeness and Sizewell.
On 15 April 2009 Dungeness was included in a list of 11 potential sites for new nuclear power stations, at the request of EDF Energy, which owns and operates Dungeness B.
The waste hot water and sewage from the Dungeness nuclear power stations are pumped into the sea through two outfall pipes, enriching the biological productivity of the sea bed and attracting seabirds from miles around.
There are two nuclear power stations at Dungeness, the first built in 1965 and the second in 1983.
The nuclear power station at Dungeness was mentioned in " I'm ebola " by the band The Stripper Project who live in nearby Hastings "... Im like a three-handed child in the shadow of Dungeness ... where we can grow our extra toes .."
* BCU South-responsible for nuclear sites in the south of England ; Culham, Dungeness, Harwell, Hinkley Point, Oldbury, Sizewell
** Freight-only line diverges to serve Dungeness nuclear power station, operated by Direct Rail Services.
* Dungeness ( headland ), shingle promontory and site of a nuclear power station in Kent, England

Dungeness and power
Dungeness A is a legacy Magnox power station, that was connected to the National Grid in 1965 and has reached the end of its life.
Dungeness B is an advanced gas-cooled reactor ( AGR ) power station consisting of two 615 MW reactors, which began operations in 1983 and 1985 respectively.
Dungeness B was the first commercial scale AGR power station to be constructed, the design being based on the much smaller Windscale AGR prototype ; the WAGR.
From 1961 to 1984, Dungeness power station also housed the mercury arc valves of the static inverter plant converting AC into DC for transmission on HVDC Cross-Channel, the high-voltage direct current power cable carrying electric power across the English Channel to France.
Dungeness is also the name of the power station and a few other nearby buildings near the beach, and of an important ecological site at the same location.

Dungeness and station
The lead station, Dungeness B was ordered in 1965 with a target completion date of 1970.
A pumping station was built at Lydd, linking Dungeness with a Petroleum pipeline from Walton-on-Thames.
A branch from the Marshlink Line at Appledore to New Romney was opened by the South Eastern Railway: it had a short branch to a station at Dungeness, which closed to passengers on 4 July 1937 ; it was closed completely when the Lydd to New Romney section closed on 6 March 1967.
In television, the Dungeness landscape, the lighthouse and the power station have been used on digital channel E4 at the beginning and end of advertising breaks.
Pluto Cottage at Dungeness, a pumping station built to look like a small house, is now a Bed and Breakfast.

Dungeness and may
The carapace widths of mature Dungeness crabs may reach in some areas off the coast of Washington, but are typically under.

Dungeness and either
Dungeness crabs can typically be purchased either live or cooked.

Dungeness and one
Isham Randolph of Dungeness, one of Thomas Jefferson's grandfathers and son of William Randolph, was married in St. Paul's church.
Dungeness is one of the largest expanses of shingle in the world.
The 1981 fantasy film Time Bandits shot its ' Time of Legends ' sequence on the beach and much of the 1998 Rachel Weisz movie I Want You was set in and around Dungeness: the lead character's home was one of the wooden beach dwellings.

Dungeness and stations
The CEGB conducted a detailed economic appraisal of the competing designs and concluded that the AGR proposed for Dungeness B would generate the cheapest electricity, cheaper than any of the rival designs and the best coal-fired stations.
An ambitious construction programme of five twin reactor stations, Dungeness B, Hinkley Point B, Hunterston B, Hartlepool and Heysham was quickly rolled out, and export orders were eagerly anticipated.
Begun in 1942, the plan included a thousand miles of pipelines linking Grain on the Hoo peninsula, and other oil refineries, first to Dungeness and soon after to Sandown on the Isle of Wight, where pumping stations were set up to successfully carry over 6, 000 tons of fuel a day to Cherbourg.
The branch originally served both New Romney and Dungeness: there were stations at:

Dungeness and only
This division of forces left Blake with only 42 men of war by November, while the Dutch were making every effort to reinforce their fleet, and this led to an English defeat by Tromp in the Battle of Dungeness in December but didn't save the English Mediterranean fleet, largely destroyed at the Battle of Leghorn in March 1653.
The only recorded death in the UK occurred in 1927, when a fisherman off Dungeness suffered multiple stings.

Dungeness and which
While anchored in Dungeness Bay on the south shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, third lieutenant Joseph Baker made an observation of Mount Baker, which Vancouver recorded in his journal:
Other commercially important taxa include Portunus pelagicus, several species in the genus Chionoecetes, the blue crab ( Callinectes sapidus ), Charybdis spp., Cancer pagurus, the Dungeness crab ( Metacarcinus magister ) and Scylla serrata, each of which yields more than 20, 000 tonnes annually.
Later, he erected a hunting lodge on Cumberland named Dungeness, which was predecessor to the famous Greene and Carnegie Dungeness Mansions.
* the Denge Marsh, south-east of Lydd, which now includes Denge Beach and Dungeness ;
Athlete have a song on the album Vehicles and Animals called " Dungeness " which is about the area.
The Kent-based hardcore punk band November Coming Fire released a 2006 album entitled Dungeness, featuring a track called " Powerstation " which included a recording of waves on the beach.
Constance and Warrior are readily available from these roads ( the lower portions of which are paved ) which actually connect to FS 2800 and the Dungeness / Sequim area via the 5000-foot Bon Jon Pass.
It was given by George Vancouver in 1792, who wrote: The low sandy point of land, which from its great resemblance to Dungeness in the British Channel, I called New Dungeness.
The spit was named by explorer George Vancouver in 1792, who wrote: " The low sandy point of land, which from its great resemblance to Dungeness in ths British Channel, I called New Dungeness.
Dungeness crabs have a wide, long, hard shell, which they must periodically moult to grow ; this process is called ecdysis.
The Dungeness crab is named after Dungeness, Washington, which is located approximately five miles north of Sequim and east of Port Angeles.
Thus branches were built from Sandling near Folkestone to Hythe and Sandgate, ( opened 9 October 1874 ); from Dover to Deal and Sandwich ( jointly with the LC & DR, which opened 15 June 1881 ); from Appledore to Dungeness ( 1 April 1883 ) and New Romney ( 19 June 1884 ).
The EP features the original versions of " Westside " and " Dungeness ", which were soon to appear on the band's debut album.
This land became the basis of the Tuckahoe and Dungeness Plantations, which were later founded by two of William Randolph's sons.

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