Workers have successfully installed a final steel containment ring for the reactor building for Unit 1 of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station under construction in Somerset, England.
Project owner EDF Energy said favourable still wind conditions allowed for the completion of the operation by the world’s largest crane ‘Big Carl’.
Project owner EDF Energy said favourable still wind conditions allowed for the completion of the operation by the world’s largest crane ‘Big Carl’.
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