Gantry Crane at Nuclear Plant Construction Site

(Original Caption) Additional Hulton Text: A giant crane is being used at Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex, to enable engineering work to proceed unhindered and to lift the very heavy boiler and reactor structures in the construction by the Nuclear Power Plant Company Ltd of the Commercial Nuclear Power Station they are building for the Central Electricity Generating Board. The station when commissioned in late 1960 will have two reactor buildings each housing six boilers, and a spherical steel pressure vessel, and will give a guaranteed net electrical output of 300 MW. The boiler shells will be floated down the North Sea to the site, but the pressure vessel being 67ft in diameter, and weighing 1,100 tons, will be erected on the site. Picture shows: The Goliath Crane lifting a 200 block of concrete during a test today. the crane is as high as Nelson's Coilumn, and took 14 months to build. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)