Video: ‘Big Carl’ crane lifts dome for Hinkley Point C’s first reactor building into place

Neil Gerrard Senior Editor, Construction Briefing

18 December 2023

The world’s biggest crane, known as ‘Big Carl’, has lifted the dome for the first reactor building at UK nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C in Somerset into place.

The work paves the way for the first nuclear reactor to be installed next year.

Engineering teams lifted the 245-tonne, 14m-high…

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