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Powering Britain

Series 1

Nuclear

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One North WestLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Keeley Donovan meets the people working at Britain’s biggest operational nuclear site at Heysham on the Lancashire coast. Heysham 1 and Heysham 2 power stations make enough electricity to power more than four million homes. Keeley follows engineers as they undertake a huge maintenance programme called an outage. But with Britain in lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic, will engineers be able to get one of the reactors back on line to provide much-needed energy to the nation? Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Keeley Donovan
Executive Producer:
Nicola Addyman
Series Producer:
Paul Greenan

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