Drax power station Selby Coalfield discovery in 1967 the Board would build three large power stations to use its coal. These were; an expansion of the station at Ferrybridge, a new station at Eggborough, and the biggest being Drax. In 1983/84 Drax was presented with the Hinton Cup, the CEGB's ""good house keeping trophy"". The award was commissioned by Sir Christopher Hinton, the first chairman of the CEGB. Authority to carry out preparatory works was granted in December 1964, leading to full permission in March 1966, on the basis that the station would be designed to accommodate six 660 MW units, but that
Drax the Destroyer smell, root out a skrull in disguise and detect when energy weapons were about to go off. Dave Bautista plays Drax in the live-action 2014 Marvel Studios film "Guardians of the Galaxy". In the film, Drax is an alien whose wife and daughter were slaughtered by Ronan the Accuser, on the instructions of Thanos, for which Drax vows revenge. He first meets the other Guardians of the Galaxy in prison, including Gamora, whom he holds responsible for his family's deaths because she is a daughter of Thanos. She tells him that she was raised by Thanos only after he slaughtered