Demolition contractor Brown & Mason, responsible for the controlled explosion at Didcot A power station last weekend when a pylon burst into flames, has stressed that no debris left the exclusion zone it had set up.
The 33kV overhead line was thought to have been struck by some form of “protective material” after the explosions, although Brown & Mason did not elaborate on exactly what the material was.
The incident followed the contractor’s demolition of three cooling towers, at around 7am on Sunday morning, and resulted in power being lost to thousands of homes in the area, which was later restored at around 820am.
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