Calder Hall to Hinkley Point

Series

Series Name

Babcock Review

Issue

Issue No.

3

Date Released

1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Calder Hall to Hinkley Point
2. 2Golf Links with Steam
3. 3African Horizon
4. 4From Pine to Paper

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: Calder Hall was the first full-scale nuclear power station in the world and in its design and construction Babcock had an important part.
Now the Company is playing an even larger part in the design and construction of the world’s largest nuclear power station. at Hinkley Point in Somerset, England. The film, after glimpses of Calder Hall, takes us to the site of the Hinkley Point station where work is in hand preparing for roads and foundations; and includes impressions of the station as it will appear when completed.

Researcher Comments

This story was made as part of Home and Away issue 11.

Keywords

Engineering; Nuclear energy; Energy resources

Written sources

Synopses of the Babcock Film Magazines booklet   p15-16. Used for synopsis

Credits:

Sponsor

Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.

Producer

Cyril Randell

Director

Peter Ward

Production Co.

Technical & Scientific Films Ltd.

Editor

Terence Twigg