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Hinkley Point C / World’s Largest Crane Used To Lift First Containment Ring

By David Dalton
18 December 2020

Nighttime operation timed to take advantage of light winds
World’s Largest Crane Used To Lift First Containment Ring
The ring weighs 382 tonnes – around the weight of a 747 Jumbo jet – but lifting gear took the total lift weight to 575 tonnes. Courtesy EDF.
Workers at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station site in Somerset, England, have used the world’s largest crane to lift the first of three massive prefabricated steel containment rings which form the reinforced cylinder around the nuclear reactor.

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