Passing milestones on the roadmap to energy security

Recently, Osprey’s nuclear team coordinated the transportation of EDF’s new Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) in to Hinkley Point C (HPC). The safe delivery of this component marks yet another important milestone, not only for the site itself, but also for Britain’s nuclear roadmap.

Osprey is a Tier 1 supplier to HPC. We co-ordinate, engineer and execute the most challenging, heaviest lifting for supersized critical assets coming into the site in Somerset. Our Tier 1 capabilities are a core service, and we offer a range of similar, short and long-term end-to-end solutions for lynchpin clients in almost every sector.

It must be said that, weighing 500 tonnes, the RPV wasn’t the heaviest component we’ve ever moved. We’ve transported railway bridges weighing over 5,000 tonnes for Network Rail, for example. But this was the first time in 30 years that a reactor of this enormous significance has arrived in Britain (the last one, also manufactured by the French manufacturer, Framatome, was installed at Sizewell B in Suffolk).