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Explosions Timeline for Remaining Notts Power Stations as Demolitions Continue

Summary by Nottingham Post
The county recently lost eight huge cooling towers in a series of explosions

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BRIEF: The record demolition of the 114-meter-high cooling towers of the Cottam power station took place last Thursday in Nottinghamshire, England. All eight of them went to the ground simultaneously, which is a new Guinness record, reports the BBC. Video footage of the blasting, which used half a ton of explosives, was brought by Reuters. The coal-fired power station, which opened in 1968, was able to generate electricity for about 3.7 million …

The eight cooling towers of the Cottam coal-fired power plant were blown up on August 14, 2025. The world record operation required 500 kilograms of explosives.

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Novinky.cz broke the news in on Friday, August 22, 2025.
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