Two buildings blown up at Kingsnorth Power Station, in Hoo
11:15, 29 March 2017
Two buildings at the now decommissioned Kingsnorth Power Station were blown up this morning.
The precipitators, pictured here, were razed to the ground at 9am this morning at the now defunct site in Hoo.
The buildings, which removed dust particles from emissions at plant, came down according to plans.
Other familiar buildings which have already been flattened include the turbine hall, coal handling plant and two boilers houses.
The boiler houses were demolished in October last year and in July a coal bunker was blown up.
Kingsnorth, which is owned by Uniper, was commissioned in 1973 but ceased generation in December 2012, after it reached a 20,000-hour operations threshold set by the EU.
The full-site demolition programme, including flattening its 198m chimney, is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
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