25,000 tonnes of material used to backfill turbine hall basement
19 August 2025
More than 25,000 tonnes of material have been used to backfill the basement structure of a demolished turbine hall at the Dungeness A nuclear site in Kent, in a major milestone for the site’s decommissioning programme.
The turbine hall, originally built in 1965, stood 26 metres high and housed four turbogenerators that converted nuclear heat into electricity for the National Grid. Although the building was demolished a decade ago, a large basement void remained on site.
That void has now been safely filled to ground level…
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