Oldbury Power Station

Location: Oldbury Naite, BS35, UnitedKingdom

Service: Structural assessment

Team Client:

BNFL Magnox

Description: 

The construction of thepowerstation began in 1961 and electricity generation started in 1967.Old burywas the first nuclear power station in the UK to use pre-stressed concrete pressurevessels, earlier Magnox reactors having used steel pressure vessels more suitedto smaller reactors.

Project Design:

Kashec carried out a structuralassessment of the existing structures for this scheme. We checked the structuralcapacity of the turbine loading bay for plant and abnormal transporter loads.