A construction worker has died in a “construction traffic incident” at the construction site of nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served improvement notices to contractors Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke after a scaffold worker fell from height.

Midlands-based contractor G F Tomlinson has completed construction of a bunker to house the UK’s first neutron facility.

The world’s biggest crane has lifted a 347t liner steel ring onto the Unit 1 reactor building at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station.

Construction of a new product and residue store retreatment plant – one of the largest ever construction projects at the nuclear facility – is to gather pace after the business case for the project was approved.