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Biggest Concrete Pour in U.K. History Completed at Nuclear Plant Site
It will be the base of EDF’s Hinkley Point reactor, which is on track to start generating electricity within six years.
Three boring machines stand ready to commence the major tunnelling work required for the reactor's cooling water systems.
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Electricite de France SA has completed the biggest single pour of concrete in Britain at the site of a new nuclear power plant in Somerset.
The utility poured 9,000 cubic meters of the material at Hinkley Point, exceeding the amount of concrete that went into the Shard skyscraper in London. It was reinforced by 5,000 tons of steel built into a nest 4 meters high that will serve as the base of the first new reactor in the U.K. since 1995.