Hinkley Point

Fig. 4. A typical advanced gas-cooled reactor graphite core (Hinkley Point B under construction) [11].

The first use of simulation specific to the AGRs was for training of staff for the Hinkley Point B AGR in May 1980. This was followed over the next two years by simulators designed to reflect the plant parameters of specific stations, like Dungeness B , Hartlepool and Heysham. 

Two members of the Working Group visited Hinkley Point B on 12-13 February 1987 to study some of the normal and emergency operational procedures on an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor station. 

Mr. J. Moorby (CEGB, SU Region) and Mr. R. Dickson (CEGB, Hinkley Point P.S.)... 

Camera coverage is increased by the Incorporation of an hydraulically actuated wrist and knuckle joint (termed the Drive Head ) incorporated in the first link. This enables the camera to be angled through 90" and rotated through 360° and is very similar to a head already supplied to Hinkley Point B. 

This expierience has demonstrated Hinkley Point B s dDility to obtain necessary in-reactor insp>ection information in the above dome region in the absence of man oi-try. 

Hinkley Point B Power Station Nr. Bridgwater, Somerset... 

A manipulator display and guidance system has been successfully developed and commissioned on the Hinkley Point B Above Dome Manipulator and used without an in reactor observer. 

At time of writing, Electricite de France (EDF) is about to make a decision to finally commit fuUy to the constraction of a large new twin pressurized water reactor (PWR) at Hinkley Point, Somerset, in the UK. The plant will be two European Pressurized water Reactors (EPRs), designed by Areva and built by EDF. Similar plants are already in construction at Olkiluoto (Finland), Flamanville (Normandy, France), and Taishan (China). 

Hinkley point is located on the north coast of Somerset on the Bristol Channel, some 8 miles north-west of Bridgewater. The A station consists of two reactors housed in steel spherical pressure vessels of 67 ft diameter, made of plates 3 in. thick. Each reactor has six boilers. Generating plant consists of six 3.5 MW turbo alternators and three 33 MW turbo alternators to provide auxiliary supplies. Total output of the station is 500 MW, which is fed into the 75 kV Supergrid system running between Melksham and Taunton. 

HAY, J. D. and EADIE, D. McD. The prestressed concrete pressure vessels for Hinkley Point B and Hunterston B . Paper No. SM.ll 1/31. Symposium on Advanced and High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors. Jillich, Germany, October, 1968. 

Kalderon, D. Steam turbine failure at Hinkley Point A , Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. 186, 1972, p. 341. Hinkley Point A Power Station, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. 186, 1958, p. 379. 

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