Building Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Power Station.

[Megaflow]

It was on BBC2 on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Wow, there are some unbelievable numbers involved, dig down to the bed rock, build the sides up to 4m high. Fill said hole with 1700 tonnes of rebar and 9000m^3 of concrete, poured in a single pour over 4 days…

Oh, and the sea water pumps draw 120,000 litres per second, yes, one hundred and twenty thousand litres a second…

[MattyD803]

Absolutely, some incredible engineering going on down there, right across the engineering disciplines.....

The sort of flow rates, masses, temperatures, power outputs, rotational speeds etc etc that place will be dealing with once up and running are simply staggering.

[gruntmonster]

[Teddy Lop]

Megaflow said:

Oh, and the sea water pumps draw 120,000 litres per second, yes, one hundred and twenty thousand litres a second…

I hate figures like this. WTF is 120000 litres it's meaningless beyond being a big number.

Call it 120 cubic meters or 130 tons, that actually sounds more impressive to me because I can guage it. Rather than a silly number of silly little things.

Berkley used to fill a skip every day with the trash they filtered out the River Severn IIRC, not sure how many trillion ounces that is, but one for the h8rs to dwell on.

[FourWheelDrift]

Teddy Lop said:

I hate figures like this. WTF is 120000 litres it's meaningless beyond being a big number.

It's about 40 Elephants, or 9 double decker buses, sorry I can't compare it to Wembley stadium or a blue whale as I don't have those figures.

[Steve vRS]

FourWheelDrift said:

Teddy Lop said:

I hate figures like this. WTF is 120000 litres it's meaningless beyond being a big number.

It's about 40 Elephants, or 9 double decker buses, sorry I can't compare it to Wembley stadium or a blue whale as I don't have those figures.

Surely volume is measured in Olympic sized swimming pools.

[Teddy Lop]

Steve vRS said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Teddy Lop said:

I hate figures like this. WTF is 120000 litres it's meaningless beyond being a big number.

It's about 40 Elephants, or 9 double decker buses, sorry I can't compare it to Wembley stadium or a blue whale as I don't have those figures.

Surely volume is measured in Olympic sized swimming pools.

It's 20,272,370 imperial teaspoons, or if my math is correct 1.6E−18 of the mass of the moon.

[wombleh]

The place is vast, I remember driving up the road and seeing HPB, then HPA, then a massive gap that looked about a mile to a tower which I realised was on the far end of the C station.

No wonder I couldn’t get any sodding cement in B&Q

[Zarco]

Incredible project. I work in the industry and love shows like this.

[Trophy Husband]

The Lift Supervisor and temporary works coordinator for the 5000t crane started his working life as a labourer for me in 2006. Cracking lad. I could tell he was ambitious even then. Well done Ash.

[tannhauser]

Zarco said:

Incredible project. I work in the industry and love shows like this.

Programme. Not show.