हिंकले प्वाइंट सी (एचपीसी) परमाणु ऊर्जा स्टेशन यूरोप की सबसे बड़ी और तकनीकी रूप से सबसे जटिल परियोजनाओं में से एक है।

एचपीसी यूके में एक पीढ़ी में बनाया जाने वाला पहला परमाणु ऊर्जा स्टेशन है, और इसके निर्माण के लिए अत्यधिक कुशल कार्यबल और सर्वोत्तम निर्माण और इंजीनियरिंग समाधान की आवश्यकता है।

The HPC Project is located in Somerset, South West England, and will consist of two nuclear reactors capable of generating 3.2GW of low-carbon electricity.

The new power station is being constructed in the same area as the existing Hinkley Point A and B stations. The former ceased operations some time ago, while the latter is decommissioned in 2022.

डेक्सट्रा को एचपीसी के हिस्सों, विशेष रूप से रिएक्टर के विमान प्रभाव सुरक्षा शेल के लिए कंक्रीट सुदृढीकरण के यांत्रिक स्प्लिसेस की आपूर्ति सौंपी गई थी।

More than 2.5 million Griptec couplers have been supplied for the construction of HPC.

Griptec is designed to comply with the most stringent project specifications, and has proven to be a popular system of choice for EPR nuclear power stations, having been used for the construction of the Flamanville 3, Taishan 1, and Taishan 2 power stations.

The Griptec mechanical splice consists of two steel sleeves which are swaged onto the end of the reinforcing bars by a specific machine that was designed and patented by Dextra.

This swaging machine incorporates a systematic, non-destructive pull test. Griptec is the only coupler system that provides an automatic quality control of each processed bar.

Besides Griptec couplers, Dextra is also supplying 3 million headed bars to the project. These are reinforcing bars that are bent on one side and fitted with an anchorage head on the other side and are used for the transverse reinforcement of concrete slabs, rafts, and walls. They allow a much faster and safer site installation than conventional double-bend bars.

When complete, HPC will provide low-carbon electricity for around six million homes.