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Engineers at Hinkley Point C<\/a> worked through the night to complete the first big lift by the world\u2019s largest crane<\/a>, ‘Big Carl’<\/h2>\n

Big Carl, the 250m crane lifted a 170-tonne prefabricated part of the reactor\u2019s steel containment liner into place on December 18.<\/p>\n

The achievement marked the end of a year where all the milestones for the new nuclear power station<\/a> were met.<\/p>\n

The lift had been carefully planned to take advantage of a small weather window last night.\u00a0The project is now focused on completing the base of Unit Two in 2020, as planned, 12 months after Unit One.<\/p>\n

Productivity improvements between the two units show the benefit of replication and using experienced workers repeating the same design. This approach will be used for the proposed near-identical plant at Sizewell C in Suffolk.<\/p>\n

The project is also strengthening UK skills by joining in the creation of a national welding centre in Somerset, a UK nuclear Technical Services Organisation in Gloucester and a UK EPR engineering design centre in Bristol.<\/p>\n

Hinkley Point C managing director, Stuart Crooks, said: \u201cThe first big lift is another impressive achievement and I want to thank the teams who\u2019ve worked so hard to make this possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe experience from civil and nuclear construction<\/a> and operation across the world at Hinkley Point C is first class and I am pleased to say that we have ended 2019 with all milestones achieved.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that Hinkley Point C\u2019s success is essential in the fight against climate change \u2013 in a future when renewables and nuclear will be needed to fill an energy gap as we move away from polluting fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n

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