Behind the scenes site tour of Hinkley Point C | April 2023

[@krisharkay]

Great to see my Turbine hall design in ground reality. Thanks to Nigel and EDF team for the updates 💐

[@matthewmcevoy2736]

Amazing. No pressure! (Badum tsch)

[@LFTRnow]

A work of art and engineering beauty. Everything is well thought out and designed and now we see the execution thanks to these videos. Excellent video, looking forward to the next update!

[@rougeangle1]

Well thought out? Its years behind schedule and billions above budget

[@nedward.7442]

Well, how good.. EDF itself admitted that the EPR was bad, so they rolled out version 2.

[@jbvi1]

Bravo from France 😊

[@wibbers4578]

Merci!

[@AnthonyFrancisJones]

Excellent and really well presented. It is incredible what humans are capable of designing!

[@MrKarlPrince]

Interesting place for a footprint at 3:03😄

[@jeromecaille20]

Thank you!!! Just one word: « wooooow »

[@mikestonor5297]

Most insightful.

[@cattycorner8]

Fantastic!

[@heinkle1]

Mind bogglingly vast

[@rileymannion5301]

Dude has a great narration voice

[@shaunwest3612]

Incredible 👌

[@Kenlwallace]

Awesome … needs to be more stuff like this, more detail, to demystify the fear of nuclear

[@sayantan777]

Amazing video

[@gunsumwong3948]

In February 2023, EDF announced that costs would rise to £32.7bn and completion would be delayed by a further 15 months to September 2028. Since Hinkley Point C maximum output is 3,200MW so the installation cost is £10,000 per kW or US$12,400 per kW at £1=US$1.24. This has to be the mother of all nuclear power plants. OlKiluto 3 NPP in Finland has been just put into commercial operation on 16 Apr 2023 after treble its cost from 3 to 9 billion Euro. It has 1,600MW output so its installation cost is $6,187 per kW assuming US$1=1.1 Euro

[@Withnail1969]

September 2028? Good grief.

[@streaky81]

OlKiluto Unit 3's 9 billion is construction cost - Hinkley C's 32 billion is full-life cost including unadjusted decommissioning costs: though the cost of decommissioning nuclear reactors is falling all the time, so the final figure will likely be significantly lower unadjusted. I do think this will be the last pair of reactors the UK builds in this fashion, though: it's going to be very hard to justify building these massive reactors in future.

[@nuclearRAT_]

I’m gonna try get a application from heysham once I’m 18 and try get a job at hinkley when it’s built

[@evbear561]

Good luck 🤞

[@nuclearRAT_]

@@evbear561 thank you 😁

[@lukerogers6133]

With that username…😂. Seriously though, go for it. Great career choice.

[@skino4united]

Good job

[@yggdrasil9039]

So fish will be able to swim in from the Bristol channel up the inlet tunnel and into the cooling floor bay, and swim around a bit?

[@mirkobortolotto]

I hope that wonderful reactors like these will be built also in Italy soon

[@evbear561]

I wish, shame nuclear energy in Italy is illegal

[@thomasherrin6798]

​@@evbear561 You will be at the mercy of the carbon suppliers, good luck with that!?!

[@nedward.7442]

Nuclear energy is banned in Italy, isn't it?

[@eddyd8745]

Incredible project. Such a pity that the UK can't do this on its own anymore.

[@zig_ziggy]

As a lifelong civil and mechanical engineer I appreciate the scale of this project, but for me the future is small modular plants, which should be able to be built quicker, with each unit learning from the design improvements of the previous unit.

[@eddyd8745]

@@zig_ziggy I have to agree, I've been waiting for years to see the government pull its finger out and start commissioning RR to build some.

[@zig_ziggy]

@@eddyd8745 Lets start now with just one. And as that one nears completion and lessons are learnt, lets build another 2 and so on, until we have a reliable and proven network of SMR's and a technology we can sell to others.

[@thomasherrin6798]

It could do it on its own, but tied a French Company to the Cost Price instead, there will be another 6 Large Scale Nuclear Reactors and then SMR's to suit tailored requirements when they are available by 2030 or so, for industrial applications and the like!?!

[@eddyd8745]

@@thomasherrin6798 Sorry I don't agree. We just don't have the manufacturing base to build the reactors or turbines. We don't have a UK EDF, Toshiba or Mitsubishi. The UK manufacturing industry has been destroyed.

[@jamesLee-px4ux]

This Turbile hall main column that other name pestal column is not to compose of concrete and steel structures?

[@swexitare9753]

Pity the waste heat is just going to make the sea warmer instead of keeping buildings warm.

[@streaky81]

It's difficult to recover that heat in a way that makes sense to the process - you need to condense vast amounts of steam very very quickly which means massive supplies of sea water. You could do it, but it's a little bit pissing in the wind and there's nothing in the vicinity that could use the heat anyway. The energy availability from nuclear means it's a relatively pointless exercise anyways.

[@BlackLukeS]

@@streaky81 what’s the temperature difference that is allowed to be discharged at sea?

[@thwalesproductions]

@@BlackLukeS I think its 11c the temperature difference

[@AnthonyFrancisJones]

The other problem is that the site is a long way from a centre of population right out in the countryside.

[@awaissharif98]

Can someone explain whag a Equipment Reliability Acceleration (ERA) Team or Defueling Preparations Team does?

[@liverpoollocksmith791]

any jobs at hinckley point for level 2 scaffolder thanks

[@alistairmcpherson2228]

Forgive my ignorance but why can’t you crane the Pressure vessel into unit 1, before the doom is lifted into place?

[@laveturnerjones3954]

shielding it from contamination i think

[@pedroenguita1875]

In some places (p.e. Akkuyu and El Barakah) is done as you say, so It seems to be up to the builder.

[@coderider3022]

Security terrorism related, it’s just a building site, once they introduce a reactor, shit get real.

[@martingoffin9659]

United Kingdom Of Great Britain London is the best city in the world, 🇬🇧 all nuclear power plant is the best quality made and best plant forever all UK Company work together will finish all construction work early.

[@BerlietGBC]

GE turbine, where is that being made ?

[@streaky81]

Belfort would be my guess. Edit: checked, yes it is.

[@BerlietGBC]

@@streaky81 Shows I’m so out of touch i over looked that’s been part of GE for 10 years lol

[@streaky81]

@@BerlietGBC apparently the steam turbine they're going to use breaks a bunch of world records - GE have some content on it, I wasn't aware until you asked.

[@BerlietGBC]

@@streaky81 It's interesting subject I know it's GE but I'm wondering what the turbines heritage is as this was Alshom if it's a development of one of there's or using GE technology

[@BerlietGBC]

@@streaky81 Yes indeed think you nailed it , was it Alstom or Siemens took over the Ruston gas turbine business thats another interesting story

[@titidumitrelnovac3253]

Hoodys , no chin straps , no eyes protection, people interfere with other trades , etc ....

[@neux3642]

Nice

[@Manish_Kumar_Singh]

Crane capicity? Heavy lift crane

[@neux3642]

Cu placere baieti ;))

[@AndrewLambert-wi8et]

DONT SHOW THIS. ITS A SHAME.

[@sparkiegaz3613]

If n g b are involved it be a disaster like Mensa project 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@devaconcc9038]

He lost my attention at the mention "net zero". Remarkable how many have bought into this lie.

[@pedroenguita1875]

Well, although nuclear fission is by itself "net zero", when considering the whole cycle (mining, construction, etc) no source of energy is really "net zero". However, nuclear has one of the lowest CO2 emissions per generated kwh.

[@earldavidson]

If you think "Netzero" is a reality your delusional coz it aint.

[@skataskatata9236]

that thing is economically obdolete. Each kWh coming out costs 4 x more than any alternative. at least. just utter nonsense.

[@stuartwilliams3164]

Until the wind stops blowing and the PV needs replacing,bring back coal !!!!!!!

[@nobby91010]

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[@coderider3022]

If it was up to me, place would be full of these plants. Wind is an expensive joke.

[@fenixfp40]

I can’t wait to pay for the decommissioning 🫣