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Hinkley Point C

i Two huge jack up vessels arrived off the coast of Hinkley Point C as our Project’s offshore work moves into its final phase. The vessels, “Neptune” and “Sea Challenger”, will be used to connect the cooling water tunnels to the Heads on the seabed.

i Agnès Pannier Runacher, French Minister for Energy Transition, visited Hinkley Point C Site in April. Here she is pictured in the Simulator Building meeting teams.

i The reactor pressure vessel made its way to Hinkley Point C after a 2,000-mile journey.

i The first new nuclear reactor for a British power station in more than 30 years has arrived in Somerset.

i The reactor pressure vessel arrives by barge to Combwich Wharf on the River Parrett in Somerset.

i The six giant head was lowered onto the seabed of the Bristol Channel - which has the 2nd highest tidal range in the world! They weigh 5,000 tonnes each and were installed using floating cranes (the size of football pitches). The heads enable the flow of water in and out of the power station.

i Big Carl, the world’s largest crane, lifted the pictured 304-tonne steel liner ring onto the first reactor building.

i This is the third and final ring to be installed on the building, which will contain one of Hinkley Point C’s two nuclear reactors.

i One of our project’s heaviest lifts was completed when Big Carl set down the Lance Storage and Transfer Compartment Pools, weighing in at a staggering 780 tonnes, into the Unit 1 Reactor Building.

i We were delighted to welcome The French Ambassador Hélène Tréheux-Duchêne to Hinkley Point C. The Ambassador went on a tour of the site and was able to see first-hand the great progress we are making.

i The Equipment Hatch Access was fitted into the side of Nuclear Reactor 1 and will form the main access route to bring equipment in and out of the Reactor Hall and will still be in use once the power station is operational.

i This is the gold simulator suite inside the Hinkley Point C Training Building. In this room trainee reactor operators will learn the skills required to operate the nuclear power station.