NUCLEAR ENERGY

  
 
 

New European pressurised water (EPR) reactor – Cut away model of the new Olkiluoto unit
 
 
 

EPR nuclear power plant under construction at Olkiluoto, Finland
 
 
 

Driving down the tunnel at the Onkalo waste repository, Olkiluoto, Finland
 
 
 

Standing between steel and copper canisters – the Finnish solution to radioactive waste disposal – putting spent fuel assemblies into the steel container inside the copper one for final storage deep below ground level.
 
 
 

With Edith Herczog MEP on my right and Romana Jordon-Ciselj MEP at the TVO visitor centre with the existing nuclear power station and a wind turbine in the background, Olkiluoto
 
 
 

With ITRE Committee colleague, Mr Esko Seppänen MEP, in front of open inspection and access hatch for low level radioactive waste at Onkalo
 
 

Climbing into a steam turbine access hatch in the maintenance training centre at Paks nuclear power plant
 
 

Standing by the cooling water inlets and outlets of the reactor core vessel.
 
 

In the turbine hall at Krsko Nuclear Power Plant, Slovenia, with on my left Edit Herczog MEP from Hungary, Romana Jordon-Ciselj MEP from Slovenia and Justas Paleckis MEP from Lithuania
 
 

In the control room at Krsko Nuclear Power Plant, Slovenia
 
 

In the modernised control room of unit three Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant in the Czech Republic with the three on duty supervisors and other staff members from CEZ the energy utility which owns and runs the NPP.
 
 

Standing beside a steel cask containing spent fuel assemblies in the dry storage facility at Dukovany. No more than hot to the touch
 
 

Opening the roundtable discussion at the European Forum on Nuclear Waste at Bar-le-duc, France on 26th November 2004