Latest news from Hinkley Point C

At school, Elle Birchall was fascinated by nuclear physics. So is her role as Nuclear Engineering Degree Apprentice still fuelling her passion?

Hinkley Point C is on track to reach a key milestone, J0, which is when we’ll pour the final concrete of the common raft – the reactor’s main foundations.

Thanks to funding secured from the Hinkley Point C Community Fund, Sedgemoor District Council will be creating two new play areas to encourage better use of local green spaces.

Hinkley Point C has been shortlisted for the ‘People’s Choice’ award at the South West Institute of Civil Engineering (ICE) awards for work on the heat sink for Unit 1.

Celebrations were underway on Friday 12 April as Hinkley Point’s highly successful visitor centre reached a major milestone. 100,000 people have now visited the centre since it first opened its doors in 2012.

Following the suspension of the Wylfa Newdd new nuclear project in Wales, we have been supporting Horizon in relocating its workforce; including the 33 apprentices who were working on the project.