New behind the scenes site tour unveiled of Hinkley Point C | July 2024 

I previously worked at Hinkley B, and other stations, but this is just colossal in comparison. Can't wait for a feature documentary to come out when complete.

Proud to have been involved for so many years ❤

Absolutely fascinating. I had no idea of the scale of it. BIG CARL FTW!

We need to see more of this throughout Europe!

Fantastic update. Well done all! I'm proud to have the project in UK.

I love watching this work I worked at eggborough power station for 11 years and was sad to live. I worked on kings Lynn little Barford Drax Immingham and cottom power station now working for mclaren at Sheffield keep the work up many thanks EDF for your work 👍

Come on Labour, we need more of these to reach net zero and energy security. 4 more would (total of 6 power 36 million homes. At £35 Billion each, but British built, 6 Hinckley Points would achieve those vital goals and give a big boost to the economy. As core infrastructure investment this would be absolutely justified.

Fantastic video. Really engaging and informative. Well done to everyone and looking forward to seeing the outcome.

We should just keep building these, it'll only get quicker and cheaper.

Nice to see the progress being made; hopefully the Labour Party (e.g. Ed Milliband) are taking note of the de-risking taking place when thinking about Sizewell C (and beyond).

Excellent video on real progress being made on a fantastic and essential project

We need much more of this! Thank you for your effort

What rational government would stop construction of critical infrastructure regardless of a "pandemic" or not?

The designers,architects and engineers never cease to amaze me.The things that seem impossible are possible in the quest of human endeavour.

Jesus the size of this project is just mind blowing!

0:47 You may be working on a nuclear power plant, but sometimes you just got to bring a big stick

That’s some insane skilled engineering!

Is it on time and how long until completion, thanks

I was here yesterday. Very cool 👍

Excellent work of team UK PLC

Excellent stuff. Just a pity that we have to rely on overseas companies to build it!

That site is absolutely massive must be one of the worlds biggest construction sites

Please consider uploading future videos in 4K!

Hopefully it drops the regional cost of electricity they way it did in Finland.

WOW absolutely bonkers 🤯🤯🤯🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

Holyyyy crap!! How many cranes are you operating at the same time???

Where dyou plug it in? 🤔

We trust it has a better fate than Nelsons Column and wonder at such a peculiar comparison. Good luck to Hinkley Point C,

It will cost 46 billion USD for 3.26 GW. The most expensive reactor in the world. US Vogtle reactor (2.2 GW) costs $34 billion USD.

Canadians helped too

Top notch..

Nice , congratulations !

It’s sad to see how many people aren’t educated on the benefits of nuclear energy. They think something like Chernobyl will happen ignoring that Chernobyl was an old poorly designed reactor that only blew up due to them preforming a dangerous test. These new ones are extremely safe and will help ween us off fossil fuels and eventually we can switch to renewables fully as the technology matures. But in the meantime nuclear is the best option.

Good job men.

When will Wlfa power station on Anglesey be built?

Is it still under construction? Is this a nuclear power plant or a cathedral?

Will it work ……

Why can't you answer? I'm interested?

so what about the radioactive waste once its up and running

This is one hell of an obsession with biggest...

Good that the work seems to be progressing well, so that Rachel Reeves can't cancel it

This is the future

Hinkley Point D when?

This is the rolls Royce era

Could some of the waste heat be used to heat greenhouses, so to grow vegetables in the winter?

Did he mention how late it was or how much over budget? 5 years late at least and 100% over budget...

35 ярдов😂 представляю какие платежки бритам приходить будут❤

You need more cranes

Great update, but can you please stick with shots for a few more seconds and get rid of the ridiculous, jumpy editing style? You can't see anything properly and it's very distracting.

now I can see why it is such a sink for money

Amazing thanks for sharing this with us

I think you need some more cranes.

As an engineer that built these in the 70's I ask three questions. 1. What is the sales price per kwh of generated electricity. Bear in mind that solar costs for large scale farms 1.4 pence per kwh. 2. Why wasn't this a lower cost and more efficient thorium reactor. 3. What is the time to complete and the xpected lifespan.

Nuclear costs 6x what renewables do and takes 10 years to bring online. Hinkley was estimated at £9 billion, but it’s already 10x over budget at £92 billion. China is installing renewables at a rate of 5 nuclear power station equivalents per week. The only possible reason for nuclear power now is to make fuel for nuclear bombs.

Great example of how building nuclear is going to result in cost blowouts and high power bills. Not even mentioned in the video.

Your of great interest...💡...the power of the future* is in your hands 👋

looks good, id prefer to hear of some large scale battery's that can help harness the wind energy we produce rather than sell it off though

so 5 of these and we can have cheap electric, seems easy to me.

Fun fact:I guess it will run before the French one 😂😂

Im all for nuclear, what would be the price per megawatt after all these cost overruns. It just won't be worth it

everything designed in france, turbine, core and steam generators designed and built in france

Hinkley Point C, generously subsidised by the French taxpayer.

Oh my God and I was trying to go there to work in Tesco’s and you are building a nuclear power Plant there 😡😡😡😡

And the news is that Spain is producing too much solar energy already...

Still shifting Highly Radioactive/Enriched Uranium fuel rods onto a small train about 20 metres from a Primary School in Bridgewater ?

fusion reactor will be finish faster and cleaner too late

:-) British velder with makeup is amazing, but probably not for velding.

yes we want cheap bills for once

It cannot be zero carbon. #1. you need fuel that gets extracted and transported across the world by Deisel engined machines. Steel made using coke and transported across the globe etc. and when in operation, staff driving their petrol cars to work and suppliers bringing in thier trucks. then you'll need to extract, transport and store spent fuel ( kept for a very long time). So please be accurate before claiming the green high ground. And when we have electric vehicles, unless your supply chain is 100% non Co2 emitting you cannot claim to be carbon neutral - ever

I'm not anti nuclear. But there is a serious waste legacy issue across the globe never mind in the UK! How much power do we actually need? It's not really net zero is it...

How is this cost effective compared to wind and storage. An engineering feat nonetheless

cricky, would have thought it would be finished by now

Who's paying for this 48 billion French cross Chinese venture? EDF uk are massively in debt and we will be paying for it.

EDF owned by Energy of France 😅😅😅👎🇬🇧

For a comparison of how the 2x1000MW already started and the construction site of the other four 1000MW look like. The construction of the first two began in 2002, and the first of them was launched in 2013, despite many protests by fishermen and many sanctions by the manufacturer in the RF. The second of them was launched in 2016. The price per piece was 1.3 billion USD. In the same power plant, since 2017, another 2x1000MW is on display at a price of USD 2.7 billion each, and from 2021 another 2x1000MW at a price of USD 3.35 billion each. The reason for the price increase is the condition of the insurance to fully indemnify anyone in the event that the power plant causes damage to property or health, which has discouraged other global manufacturers of subsidized equipment, who do not provide such guarantees anywhere, and therefore not even in the UK "ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-chUZSlJTYQc.html". P.S. exactly how much power does it provide to power 6 million homes? In reality, no one knows because each household has its own discretionary consumption which changes by own rules :-)

I hope the French will not only build this site, but also will run and superwise it afterwards. Because as we know from historical events like Sellafield and Dounreay nuclear catastrophes, brits and nuclear science are bad combination!

Having different manufacturing defects between unit one and unit two is great to know. 😂😂😂

3:13 the only two women on site lol...

Solar wind and battery can be built for millions and take years to finish, Nuclear Power takes billions of dollars and requires decades. Then the nuclear plant will run around 30 years (which is typical) and you have a high level spent fuel problem that needs to be buried for 10,000 years. However, the DOE hasn't approved transport routes, transport casks, or a national repository after 60 years of trying. No one is willing to expend the political capital to get this done. The result is in the US we have 92 nuclear power stations with high level spent fuel "temporarily" stored in their backyards.

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EDF you robbing bastards

who knew that the brits could do what america can't.

Zero carbon energy 😅, it leaves our grandchildren a massive impact. Yep I know they are more efficient but, hey let's stop believing the Zero Carbon story.

Why Go for such an incredible expensive plant? We Need to Pay a Price higher than market Price.

Let's hope it never has occasion to go super-critical and turn the land for tens, or hundreds, of miles around into unusable wasteland. Nuclear fission based energy generation has it's place in a cleaner energy future, but that place is, ideally, small and transient.

waist of money build cheap solar and give people to put on roofs and you don't need this dirty cheap energy of course people will use free energy and government don't want it

Nuclear power is disgusting

Hinkley point C, where billions of pounds were wasted on frivoloties and hubris. Looking forward to pay it off with the new more expensive electricity bills once the reactor goes online and delivers over- priced electricity.

Solar and batteries make this redundant

Zero carbon elictricity is such a silly statement... probably to placate the masses and politicians paranoia. Still great project and build!

Who pays all that? Is our Standing charge? It's more than half pound per day even before we consume a single Kwh...

How can it claim to be zero carbon when none of the construction materials have been factored in? None of the mining for materials such as fuel is factored in? None of the transport of materials is factored in? None of the storage of waste fuel is factored in? None of the decommissioning is factored in? What about the crazy high price of energy buyback? Didn't government sign off on a crazily high price? Who will pay that money? Tax and bill payers will pay dearly for this.

Meanwhile, China installed 5 nuclear power stations worth of solar PV *per week* last year.

Expensive electric price, over budget and unwanted