TORNESS NUCLEAR POWER STATION
TORNESS POWER STATION
Construction of Torness Nuclear Power Station was a huge civil engineering operation.
General Information
Torness on the east coast of Scotland is the most recent of six nuclear power stations we have built in the UK.
Its two Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor Units, each housed in a concrete pressure vessel, provide a total generating capacity of 1,400 megawatts.
The project involved construction of the power plant containment buildings, cooling water systems, ancillary buildings and associated infrastructure across an 81 hectare site.
Fast facts
- Client
- South of Scotland Electricity Board
- Duration
- 1980 - 1989
- Location
- Dunbar
- Region
- Scotland
- Sector
- Industrial & Energy
Working in joint venture, we conceived and designed
the first reactor containment Prestressed Concrete Pressure vessel
for use in a commercial nuclear power station in the UK. This
design was developed for the AGR stations at Torness as well as
Hinkley Point B, Hunterston B, Heysham 2.
We were responsible for the entire civil, structural and architectural design of 13 and the complete construction of six of the UK’s nuclear power stations.
More recently we are providing the design services for the two Auxilliary Buildings for the Taishan 1 & 2 EPR nuclear power plants in China. The project follows our successful work with Coyne et Bellier on the Flamanville 3 EPR, currently under construction in France.
