Sizewell `B´ cable installation

The Sizewell B nuclear power station project, one of the biggest single engineering construction projects in Britain, where permanent site work started in 1988 and the six year life span of the project will involve more than 100 contractors, plus local subcontractors. When the project is completed, targeted for 1994, it will be the United Kingdom´s first pressurised water reactor (PWR) power station and will supply more than 28 million kilowatt hours of electricity on a typical day. Here, the author looks at the installation of both power and telecommunications cables within this project