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1st steel liner placed into 1st Pressure Vessel - 1972

Gallery of images 9 – building the nuclear power station

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Construction of the Reactor Hall Building and the construction of the two pre-stressed concrete Pressure Vessels which contain the reactors and boilers. The images date from summer 1969 – summer 1972.

1st steel liner for 1st Pressure Vessel ready for lifting, with (yellow) EOT crane above

1st steel liner placed into 1st Pressure Vessel – 1972

Perimeter cladding rails for Reactor Hall – summer 1972

View down onto 1st steel liner

View of Reactor Hall with Turbine Hall in foreground – summer 1972

View showing (yellow) upper EOT crane – 1972

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