A Pencil Drawing by Claude Buckle Hinkley Point A Nuclear Power Station Under Construction

The construction of the power station, which was undertaken by a consortium backed by English Electric, Babcock International Group and Taylor Woodrow Construction,[1] began in 1957. The reactors and the turbines were supplied by English Electric.[2] The power station, which is currently being decommissioned, had twin Magnox reactors, each supplying steam to a turbine alternator set which was designed to produce 500 MWe but, after de-rating of the reactor power output due to corrosion concerns, producing 221 MWe.[3] The design followed the principles established by the Calder Hall nuclear power station. (Also a water colour painting by Claude Buckle) The world fair in Brussels in 1958 exhibited the largest commercial painting by Claude Buckle showing the Goliath Crane in use on the site at Hinkley Point. Hinkley Point is a headland on the Bristol Channel coast of Somerset, England, five miles north of Bridgwater and five miles west of Burnham-on-Sea, close to the mouth of the River Parrett into Bridgwater Bay. View from 1957 construction of the first commercial atomic power station at Hinkley Point. consent for French energy giant EDF to construct Hinkley Point C in Somerset was given in 2013. 1957