“2016 a big year for Nuclear New build – Britain’s nuclear future”

Hinkley Point C the first Nuclear power plant to be built since Sizewell B 18 years ago worth £16billion and the biggest single construction Project in the UK. The long awaited anticipated project starts in 2016 where spades go in the ground

Flagship project and the First in the next generation of UK nuclear power stations

Hinkley C Facts

• Providing 25,000 employment opportunities
• Large, complex, safety critical systems requiring a high level of componence AND Highest calibre of Engineers
• Direct delivery
• The nuclear plant will have two reactors and be constructed at Hinkley Point in Somerset
• Currently 16 nuclear reactors in the UK generate around a sixth of the electricity we need. All but one of these reactors will be retired by 2030.
• At the peak of the work at Hinkley Point C in Somerset, which is planned to take place between 2015 and 2023, a workforce of approximately 6,000 people could be employed at any one time
• The main earthworks will require the excavation of four million cubic metres of earth, the equivalent of 1,300 Olympic swimming pools
• 50 million hours of work will go into construction
• Over 60% of the project’s construction value to go to UK companies
• £100m per year injected into regional economy during peak construction
• Hinkley Point C construction site will cover 175 hectares
• 4 million cu m of earth will be excavated
• 3 million tonnes of concrete will be used
• 230,000 tonnes of steel reinforcement needed.
• Two UK EPR reactors will generate electricity for nearly 6 million homes (up to 7% of UK’s electricity)
• 10 million tonnes of CO2 emissions will be avoided each year