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Sizewell 'B' Power Station, Leiston, Suffolk Coastal, Suffolk, UK, 1990 (b/w photo)

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Sizewell 'B' Power Station, Leiston, Suffolk Coastal, Suffolk, UK, 1990 (b/w photo)
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1990 AD (C20th AD)
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Photographer, John Laing plc; Engineer, John Laing plc; A view of the reactor containment building under construction at Sizewell 'B' Nuclear Power Station, showing progress in the construction of the steel liner Sizewell 'B' is one of two nuclear power stations on the Suffolk coast near the village of Sizewell. Sizewell 'A', its predecessor, is in the process of being decommissioned. Sizewell 'B' is a Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR); the first of its kind to be constructed in the UK. John Laing plc were awarded the contract for the main civil engineering work on 19th May 1987. Sizewell 'B' was completed in 1995, after 8 years of construction, and is operated by EDF Energy.

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© Historic England / John Laing Photographic Collection / Bridgeman Images
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