Lowering a 5,000-tonne lump of concrete into the Bristol Channel
Balfour Beatty and client EDF have marked a milestone at Hinkley Point C, lowering the last of six head structures 25 metres to the bottom of the Bristol Channel.
The head structures cap the tunnels supplying Hinkley Point C’s two nuclear reactors with cooling water.
The final 5,000-tonne concrete structure was towed 30 nautical miles into the Bristol Channel to meet two floating heavylift cranes Gulliver and Rambiz – which have a combined lifting capacity of 7,300 tonnes. The two cranes then worked in tandem to lower the cooling-water head structure onto the seabed.
The operation took place on Friday 26th August 2002.
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