Image of Berkeley Power Station, Berkeley, Ham And Stone, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1958

Berkeley Power Station, Berkeley, Ham And Stone, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1958 (b/w photo)

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Image number: EHT6620651
Image title: Berkeley Power Station, Berkeley, Ham And Stone, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1958 (b/w photo)
Date: 1958 AD (C20th AD)

Image description: Looking down at the east side of Reactor No.1 during the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station , showing the biological shield and its discharge shaft with a Laing team working above Berkeley Nuclear Power Station was the first commercial nuclear power station in the United Kingdom and one of the first generation of nuclear reactors in Britain. It had two Magnox reactors and was one of four stations located close to the mouth of the River Severn and the Bristol Channel. Laing were the civil engineers for the project with work commencing on 7th January 1957. The nuclear power station came into service in 1962 but has since been decommissioned following its closure in 1989.
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