Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Hinkley Point B Nuclear Power Station

From Graces Guide

Hinkley Point B is a nuclear power station near Bridgwater, Somerset, on the Bristol Channel coast of south west England.

Hinkley Point B is an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) which was designed to generate 1250 MW of electricity (MWe).

1967 Commenced construction of Hinkley Point B, which was undertaken by a consortium known as the Nuclear Power Group (TNPG). The reactor vessels were supplied by Whessoe, reactor fuelling machines were supplied by Strachan and Henshaw, gas circulators and integrated electric motors by James Howden and Co and Laurence Scott and Electromotors, and the 660 MW turbine generators by GEC Turbine Generators.

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