Ashley Daniels, the head of lifting at Hinkley Point C, tells Lucy Barnard how it feels to be the man in charge of the world’s biggest and most powerful crane. Photos courtesy of EDF. Although dozens ...

The 750-tonne polar crane has been lifted into place on the first reactor building at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant, which is being built in southwest England by EDF. The polar crane is 45 ...

The world’s largest crane, called 'Big Carl', lifted the 304-tonne steel liner ring on to the first reactor building at Hinkley Point in the early hours of Monday. The crane is called 'Big Carl' ...

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The UK's nuclear watchdog has issued a warning to Hinkley Point C's main contractor over safety failings with cranes on the Bridgwater site. The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served an ...

Gulliver will be used to lower a 5,000 tonne water-cooling system onto the seabed A floating crane has arrived at Hinkley Point C to lower the new power station's water-cooling system into place ...

the RPV arrived at Hinkley Point C in February 2023 and was placed in storage. The RPV was transported onto rails and passed through a 19.5m high equipment hatch. Using the internal polar crane ...

Hinkley Point C has been served with an improvement notice relating to the monitoring and management of tower cranes at the construction site in Somerset. The enforcement action relates to the failure ...

Like other infrastructure projects, Hinkley Point C is taking longer than planned ... The team used what was said to be the world’s largest crane to place the 154-ft-dia, 46-ft-tall dome ...

For example, in 2022, it completed its first job of placing a 304-tonne steel liner ring, the last of three, onto a reactor at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in the UK. "This crane was ...

Sarens, the team behind the crane say that whilst it is at Hinkley Point, it will be used to install prefab concrete elements, steel structures and even reactor equipment for the power station.

780MW which gives Hinkley Point C a total output of over 3.2GW. Turbine hall one is the more advanced, with the cladding being installed on the completed frame and the 300-tonne gantry crane which ...