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Mar. 27 Every Bolt is X-rayed: Scene in the fabrication shops where huge turbines are constructed. Every part, mainly welding and bolts, i a frist X-rayed before passing out. Gollath Triumphant At Hinkley Point A Look - In On Progress At The World's Biggest Atomic Power Station: On the lat and muddy shoreline at Hinkley Point, somerest, the world's largest atomic power station, costing60m is taking shape at fantastic speed since work began in January last year. The first of its two biggest reactors in the World will be in operation by the end of 1961, and in the following year when the station will be fully operational, Hinkley Point will be producing 500, 000 kilowatts of electricity at a price comparable to that produced by coal or oil. By then, it will be the fourth civil power station of kind completed. Dominating the 140-acre site is the world's largest Goliath crane which is being used chiefly to lift the 90 ft by 20 ft heat exchangers and the 3in steel plates o the reactors. Movable on rails, the crane weights 1, 6000 ton; and stands on two 250 ft high legs. Two persons can operate it to lift loads up to 400 tons and place them in exact positions. A peak labour force of 2, 500 will be employed by October this year. A peak labour force of 2, 500 will be employed by October this year. Some 700, 000 cu yds of excavation work is entailed in the project, 300, 000 cu yds of concrete laid, and 27, 500 tons of steel used. English Electric Babcock and Wilcox, and TalorWoodrow are constructors for the Central Electricity Generating Board

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