Hinkley Point C giant water intakes craned onto seabed
Hinkley Point C has carried out its biggest-ever lift at sea using two huge floating cranes with platforms the size of football pitches.
Engineers have just completed the first precision placement of a 5,000-tonne water intake head on the seabed of the Bristol Channel.The work to install the cooling water intake heads is regarded as one of the world’s most complex marine engineering projects – as the Bristol Channel has the second highest tidal range on the planet.
Each intake head,
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