View onto formwork for bottom of 1st Pressure Vessel, showing steel prestressing anchors around one boiler position
Gallery of images 5 – building the nuclear power station
Hartlepool Gallery
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Building Hartlepool nuclear power station is a collection of over a hundred images taken during the construction of the Reactor Hall Building and the construction of the two pre-stressed concrete Pressure Vessels.
Detail of precast units showing the wire winding channels, and the support system for the precast units, and to the right, prestressing anchors
Detailed view of No.54 with Reactor Hall concrete frame structure surrounding the Pressure Vessel
Fixing reinforcing steel for the base of the first Pressure Vessel (steel cylinder of bored pile visible on left)
Re-lifting operations for steel plate girder
Steel beams for lower EOT in place, steel plate girder for upper EOT ready for lifting
Steelwork and concrete
View down onto base of 2nd Pressure Vessel
View of site from northwest
View onto formwork for bottom of 1st Pressure Vessel, showing steel prestressing anchors around one boiler position