Latest images show progress at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station
Around 5,000 workers are on-site each day to keep the project on track.
Latest images from the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station show remarkable progress since the first reactor’s base was completed last year.
The multibillion-pound project is now focused on completing the base of the second reactor this year at the site in Bridgwater, Somerset.
The power station will supply 7% of the UK’s electricity needs from the mid-2020s.
Full construction at Hinkley Point C got under way after EDF, its Chinese partner CGN and the Government signed final contracts in 2016.
Construction of the 760-metre sea wall was completed, and the world’s largest crane, nicknamed Big Carl, completed its first large lift on-site in December.
Some 6.6 million cubic metres of earth have been excavated for the project, and 500,000 cubic metres of concrete have been poured.
