Photograph album labelled 'Power Stations : Nuclear : AEI Progress 4' containing 77 black and white prints showing the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station. As well as general exterior views showing construction, there are details of men cleaning face of excavation and facing lining panels inside cooling water tunnel, reinforcement and concreting of biological shield to reactors, images documenting the transit of the first boiler no. 6 from fabrication shed to final position, interior view of pressure vessel 1 showing men welding first circumferential seam on barrel plates and cutting hole for CO2 inlet duct, jacking arrangements for bottom dome and details of the stress relieving apparatus in the boiler shop.
Berkeley Nuclear Power Station was the first commercial nuclear power station to be built in Britain. It was built for the Central Electricity Generating Board by A.E.I. - John Thompson Nuclear Energy Company Limited. John Laing and Son Limited and Balfour Beatty and Company Limited were contracted as civil engineers to work on the project.
This is part of the Series: JLP01/01 John Laing Photographic Collection Project Albums; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection
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Mid 20th Century Nuclear Power Station
