EDF has announced the first nuclear reactor for Somerset's Hinkley Point C power plant has been completed and is ready for delivery.
The French-built “reactor pressure vessel” - the first constructed for a British power station in more than 30 years - is a high-strength steel cylinder that contains the nuclear fuel and the chain reaction needed to make heat.
The heat is used to create high-pressure steam for the world’s largest turbines. Nuclear engineering firm Framatome, which also built the UK’s last nuclear reactor for the Sizewell B plant in Suffolk, has spent 80,000 engineering hours on its construction.
