NUCLEAR ENERGY

  
 

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
 
 

With Finnish MEP Marjo Matikainen-Kallström and Danish MEP Christian Rovsing and security adviser Mario Schwetz with the fuel loading device behind us standing above the reactor core at Swentendorf Nuclear Power Plant in Austria.

 
 
 

It isn't often one is able to look inside the core container vessel of a nuclear power plant, but this Austrian Plant was never commissioned with active fuel.
 
 

Outside main reactor building at Temelin Nuclear Power Plant operated by CEZ (Czech energy utility)
 
 

In the turbine hall where steam from the reactor secondary circuit drives the generators to produce electricity.
 
 

Temelin : In front of a spare turbine fan unit being maintained.
 
 

Being shown the main control room by the Plant Manager. Screen shows the power outputs and other plant information.
 
 

Being shown operating manual with safety procedures for the plant.