The polar crane has been installed within the reactor building of the second reactor under construction at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in southwest England. It comes days before the unit's ...

A 750-tonne polar crane has been installed at Hinkley Point C Unit 2, marking a major step towards dome installation and ...

The crane responsible for the lift is Big Carl – officially designated SGC-250 – a platform-mounted lattice-boom crane ...

The Polar Crane can rotate 360 degrees around the top of the reactor building and will be used to install heavy equipment such as the reactor and steam generators. Once operational, it will also be ...

New pictures show Hinkley Point C’s progress as teams at the new nuclear power station get ready to lift the domed roof onto the second reactor ...

London-based EDF Energy has lifted a 245-ton dome onto a reactor building using the world’s largest construction crane. The new nuclear plant in Somerset, Hinkley Point C, will feature twin nuclear ...

The enforcement action related to the failure of components on a crane, identified by an operator undertaking pre-use checks on site in February. Hinkley Point C is expected to provide six million ...

Earlier this week, Big Carl - the world's largest crane - lifted the final 11-metre prefabricated steel ring into place on to the reactor building of Hinkley Point C unit 1, which now stands 44 metres ...

The world’s largest crane has lifted a 245-tonne dome into place on top of the first nuclear power station to be built in the ...

Like other infrastructure projects, Hinkley Point C is taking longer than planned, Crooks added. Site contractors last month placed a 270-ton steelwork dome on the first reactor building.

“Hinkley Point C is not a government project and so any additional costs or schedule overruns are the responsibility of EDF and its partners and will in no way fall on taxpayers," a spokesperson ...