Lifting legend: Big Carl places final liner ring at Hinkley Point C unit one

The world’s biggest land-based crane, Big Carl, this week lifted the final liner ring into place at one of the nuclear reactors being built at the Hinkley Point C power station site in Somerset. Lucy Barnard finds out how.  

The world’s largest land-based crane, Big Carl, lifted the final steel liner ring onto the first reactor building which is under construction at Britain’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power station.

This week, engineering teams at Britain’s first new power station project in a generation were able to lift into…

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