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Hinkley Point C second reactor base
Work on the 49,000-tonne base for the second reactor at EDF Energy’s Hinkley Point C (HPC) has been completed on schedule.
Hanson UK supplied the raw materials for the concrete to main civils contractor BYLOR, which operates the on-site concrete production plant at the nuclear power station under construction in Somerset.
A four-day, 9,000 m3 continuous reinforced structural concrete pour marked completion of the ‘common raft’ for HPC’s second reactor – the reinforced concrete platform on which the reactor, and other parts of the nuclear island sit.
Completion of the base marks the transition from below ground activity to the construction of permanent reactor buildings above ground.
