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The manufacture of the reactor pressure vessel for the first of two EPR units at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction in Somerset, UK, has been completed in France and the large component is ready for delivery to the construction site.

Date: Saturday, 17 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-reactor-vessel-for-Hinkley-Point-C-completed

EDF, China General Nuclear (CGN) and the UK government have agreed a three-year extension to the contract for difference (CfD) for the Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power plant under construction in Somerset, England. While the 'long-stop date' has now been moved to November 2036, EDF maintains the plant's start-up schedule remains unchanged.

Date: Saturday, 03 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Three-year-extension-agreed-to-Hinkley-Point-C-con

The application for the construction of Sizewell C power plant in Suffolk, in the east of England, has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng.

Date: Thursday, 21 July 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-government-approves-Sizewell-C-nuclear-power-pl

The UK government has allocated GBP100 million (USD134 million) to continue the EDF-led development of the Sizewell C nuclear power plant project, with the aim of attracting further finance from private investors.

Date: Friday, 28 January 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sizewell-C-gets-financial-backing-from-UK-governme

EDF says ‘replication effect’ from EPR project can benefit proposed reactors at Sizewell C The the ring, which is 47 metres in diameter and 17 metres high, was built 25% more quickly than the same part on Unit 1. Courtesy EDF. Big Carl, the world’s biggest crane, has been used at Hinkley Point C to place the first of three massive prefabricated steel containment rings which form the reinforced cylinder around the nuclear reactor onto the second reactor building, just 11 months after the same operation on the first unit.

EDF Energy, the UK arm of France’s state utility EDF, which is building two EPR units at the Somerset site, said the installation shows how building an identical copy of the first reactor drives efficiency and saves time. It said the ring, which is 47 metres in diameter and 17 metres high, was built 25% more quickly than the same part on Unit 1, requiring thousands of hours less labour to manufacture.

The company said this “replication effect” will benefit the proposed identical Sizewell C project in Suffolk. The government recently announced funding of £1.7bn in the Sizewell C nuclear power station project as it pushes to reach a final investment decision within three years and begin a programme of new-build that will replace the nation’s aging reactors. The government has also announced legislation to introduce a new financing model, known as the regulated asset base model, for new nuclear.

Big Carl is 250m tall and has a reach of about 270m. It moves on rail tracks and will eventually lift pieces weighing more than 1,000 tonnes. The ring was placed on 96 hydraulic jacks which lowered it into its exact position.

Date: Wednesday, 17 November 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/world-s-largest-crane-lifts-first-containment-ring-into-place-at-unit-2-11-2-2021

Next section of first reactor building complete and ready to be lifted into place The Big Carl crane was used to lift the containment ring into place in December 2020. Courtesy EDF Energy. Five years after getting the go-ahead, the number of people across Britain working on the Hinkley Point C power station in Somerset, southwest England, has reached 22,000, including 6,300 on site – compared to just 1,500 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic last year.

Final contracts for the construction of two EPR plants at Hinkley Point C were signed on 29 September 2016. Since then, 3,600 British companies have won contracts on the project.

In an update on the project, which is likely to see cost increases and delays because of the Covid-19 pandemic, EDF Energy said the next prefabricated 17m high section of the first reactor building is complete and ready to be lifted into place by the “Big Carl” crane, which is the world’s largest.

Work to build the 16m-high floor for the first turbine and generator is under way, ready for the world’s most powerful “Arabelle” turbine, which arrives later this year. Each turbine can produce more than 3% of the nation’s electricity, enough for more than three million homes.

Date: Thursday, 30 September 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/hinkley-point-c-five-years-after-go-ahead-nuclear-plant-project-is-recovering-from-shock-of-covid-9-3-2021

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