This is a significant milestone for the Hinkley Point C development in Somerset. Already 8,000 people are working at the construction site.
The reactor has been made by Framatome in France and comes from the same factory that made the last nuclear reactor for a British power station in 1995. This was for Sizewell B, in Suffolk.
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