Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It dominated the local skyline for 50 years but was gone in 13 seconds. Holyhead’s 122m (450ft) chimney stack was one of the ...

Information from this article was first published in Demolition Magazine and is being reused with permission from the National Demolition Association. Thirty five seconds was all it took for 12,000 ...

The dismantling of the central chimney at the shutdown Garigliano nuclear power plant in Italy was completed yesterday, Societa Gestione Impianti Nucleari SpA announced. Preparations to demolish the ...

UK-based Bierrum International has developed its own specialist solution to the problem of tall chimney demolition. D&RI reports. Over the years, a variety of different techniques have been used to ...

The skyline at the UK’s pre-eminent nuclear facility of Sellafield is set to be altered forever when a 1950s vintage 61 m (200 ft) chimney that sits atop the 11 storey high fuel reprocessing centre is ...

Industrial smokestacks or chimneys are typically constructed as thin reinforced concrete or steel tubes of varying heights. Some chimneys are constructed as a main chimney that hosts multiple thin ...

Sellafield is Europe's largest nuclear site and although operations including spent fuel management and nuclear waste storage continue on-site, power generation ceased in 2003. As part of the ...

Work to demolish the 110-metre tall chimney of the first Windscale pile - scene of a fire in 1957 - has begun at the UK's Sellafield site. Work to demolish the 110-metre tall chimney of the first ...

Q: We have a new chimney on the side of our house. The old chimney runs three stories high and through the roof in the middle of the house. We need to dismantle it so that we can renovate and reclaim ...