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How do you lower a 5,000 tonne intake head into the Bristol Channel?
The 5,000 tonne intake head structure will cap the tunnels supplying Hinkley Point C’s two nuclear reactors with cooling water. This significant feat of engineering saw the final concrete structure towed out 30 nautical miles into the Channel to meet two floating heavy lift cranes “Gulliver” and “Rambiz”. The two cranes then worked in tandem to place the cooling-water head structure onto the seabed.