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Gallery Package - Nuclear Power

The Queen making her speech before pulling the switch which brought into operation Calder Hall, the world's first fullscale atomic power station, near Sellafield, Cumberland 17th October 1956<br>With the Queen on the dais are Mr R. A. Butler, Lord Privy Seal (left) and Sir Edwin Plowden, Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (right). The £16 1/2 million plant is now switched in to the national electricity grid.

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The Queen making her speech before pulling the switch which brought into operation Calder Hall, the world's first fullscale atomic power station, near Sellafield, Cumberland 17 October 1956


December 1942 - Fermi and colleagues bring the first nuclear reactor to life in Chicago, USA

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December 1942 - Fermi and colleagues bring the first nuclear reactor to life in Chicago, USA


Davis-Besse nuclear power cooling tower near Port Clinton, Ohio. ©David R. Frazier / The Image Works

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Davis-Besse nuclear power cooling tower near Port Clinton, Ohio


Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station<br>First power station to produce electricity on a full commercial scale opened by the Queen on 17th October 1956<br>November 1961

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Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station


Construction of the Sizewell B Nuclear Reactor.  Suffolk, East Anglia, United Kingdom. Ariel view.  The reactor costs £2.3 billion and will consist of 70,000 tons of steel, 341,000 cubic metres of concrete, and 1,800 miles of electric cables.  It will need 3/4 million gallons of water a minute for cooling the turbines, which will then produce 1,200 mega watts, enough power for the whole of East Anglia.  It will take 3,500 workers to build the Reactor. Date: 05.07.1990. <br>Ref:  UDW000911A30.<br>COMPULSORY CREDIT: David Wimsett / UPPA / Photoshot

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Construction of the Sizewell B Nuclear Reactor. Suffolk - 1990


The Swedish Nuclear Power Sation Barsebäck.

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The Swedish Nuclear Power Sation Barsebäck.


Cerenkov glow is radiation from nuclear reactor fuel rods underwater. ©David R. Frazier / The Image Works<br><br>

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Cerenkov glow is radiation from nuclear reactor fuel rods underwater.


Dungeness Nuclear Power Station<br>The two reactors No1 the more advanced in construction seen from the top of the 400 ton Goliath crane which is the dominant feature on the site <br>In the background are the old and new lighthouses <br>1961

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Dungeness Nuclear Power Station under construction - 1961


Aerial view Nuclear power station in isolated location alongside Trawsfynydd Lake Gwynedd Wales

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Nuclear power station in isolated location alongside Trawsfynydd Lake Gwynedd Wales


President and Mrs Carter inside Three Mile Island nuclear plant.  1979

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President and Mrs Carter inside Three Mile Island nuclear plant. 1979


General-Environment-Nuclear view of three mile island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, USA - 1979

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View of three mile island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, USA - 1979


Haddam Neck, Conneticut<br>The Conneticut Yankee Atomic Power Plant at Haddam Neck the largest operating commercial nuclear power plant in the United States. The 575,000 electrical Kilowatt facility started up commercially in 1968 is operated by the Conneticut Yankee Atomic Power Company.<br>The building housing the generator is sheathed in aluminium panels formed in vertical fluting with a porcelain enamel finish. Its pitched roof is covered with white marble chips with  oblong ventilator hoods of metallic brown crossing over the peak in parallel rows. Both these colours are accented by blue panels which cover the stations office building. The architecture and colours were chosen to harmonise as much as possible with the surrounding landscape and traditional New England Design

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The Conneticut Yankee Atomic Power Plant at Haddam Neck the largest operating commercial nuclear power plant in the United States


Chernobyl 1986<br>Construction work on covering ruined reactor

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Chernobyl 1986
Construction work on covering ruined reactor


Chernobyl 1986 - Contaminated Village

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Chernobyl 1986 - Contaminated Village


Chernobyl disaster (1986) - USSR - pig born Spring 1987

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Chernobyl disaster (1986) - USSR - pig born Spring 1987


The Central Control Room inside the nuclear power station at Bradwell-on-Sea, in Essex, which was one of the country's first two Magnox reactors and that started operations in 1962. <br><br>* 27/03/2002:  Anti-nuclear campaigners and local residents will mark the closing of the station for decommissioning and urge the Government to rule out the building of another power station on the site and to invest inrenewable energy, such as windpower.

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The Central Control Room inside the nuclear power station at Bradwell-on-Sea, in Essex, 1962


SIZEWELL A Nuclear Reactor.  Suffolk, East Anglia, United Kingdom. Date: 05.07.1990. <br>Ref:  UDW000911D10a<br>COMPULSORY CREDIT: David Wimsett / UPPA / Photoshot

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SIZEWELL A Nuclear Reactor. Suffolk. 1990


Avoine (Chinon's neighborhood, Indre-et-Loire), the nuclear power station, on 1982. HA-547 encore 24

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Avoine (Chinon's neighborhood, Indre-et-Loire), the nuclear power station, 1982.


&quotCaption: Shippingport, PA; Nuclear Power plant   ©T. Zuidema/The Image Works  1999  CZDM0327"

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Nuclear Power plant at Shippingport, PA, USA


04-5800	Russian Federation. Kola Nuclear Power station The control room.

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The control room.
Kola Nuclear Power station. Russian Federation.


<br><br><br>SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR POWER STATION<br>Seascale, Cumbria<br>Universal Pictorial Press Photo<br>UDW 000584/I-13   26.04.1990

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Sellafield Nuclear Power Plant - 1990


Camp Century, Greenland<br>Nuclear reactor housed in the city under the snow<br>12th January 1961

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Nuclear reactor housed in the city under the snow at Camp Century, Greenland
12th January 1961


Detroit, Michigan: Two nuclear power plants situated on Lake Erie. The Enrico Fermi power plants.October 1998  ©Joseph Sohm / The Image Works

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The two Enrico Fermi nuclear power plants situated on Lake Erie, Detroit, Michigan - October 1998


Charlevoix, Michigan: Bill Bielas, a carpenter, in the air lock leading to the reactor building at the Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Station. The plant is being decommissioned. November 13, 1998.<br><br>©Jim West / The Image Works

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Air lock leading to the reactor building at the Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Station. 1998


New Haven firefighters prepare a radiological testing area  at Southern Connecticut State University's Moore Fieldhouse in New Haven, Connecticut, on 6/1/2002 for a radiological emergency respone exercise.  This is one of the evacuation sites should a disaster occur at the Millstone Power Station, a nuclear power plant in Groton, Connecticut.<br>Photo ©Arnold Gold/New Haven Register/The Image Works

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New Haven firefighters prepare a radiological emergency respone exercise at Southern Connecticut State University's Moore Fieldhouse in New Haven. 2002


House with nuclear cooling tower in background  ©Joe Sohm / The Image Works

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House close to a nuclear cooling tower, USA


Nuclear (Atomic) energy - nuclear power produced - reactor rods being prepared

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Nuclear power - reactor rods being prepared.


Nuclear (Atomic) energy - uranium glowing in heavy water

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Nuclear power - uranium glowing in heavy water.


<br><br><br>NUCEAR POWER STATION<br>Sellafield, Seascale, Cumbria<br>Showing a SHIELDED TRANSPORT CONTAINER arriving at the Fuel Handling Plant, Sellafield<br>Universal Pictorial Press Photo<br>UDW 000584/P-03   26.04.1990

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A shielded transport container arriving at the Fuel Handling Plant, Sellafield - 1990


<br><br><br>NUCEAR POWER STATION<br>Sellafield, Seascale, Cumbria<br>Showing CAGR Dismantling Facility, Fuel Handling Plant<br>Universal Pictorial Press Photo<br>UDW 000584/O-19   26.04.1990

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CAGR Dismantling Facility, Fuel Handling Plant at Sellafield, Seascale, Cumbria.


South Texas.....Power lines leading away from the South Texas Nuclear Power generating facility near Bay City.  These electrical transmission lines carry electricity to cities as far away as Houston, San Antonio and Austin.  6/2001  ©Larry Kolvoord/The Image Works

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Power lines leading away from the South Texas Nuclear Power generating facility near Bay City


Scriba, New York:  Nuclear power plant control room simulator. * ©Rob Crandall / The Image Works

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Nuclear power plant control room simulator - Scriba, New York.


A Royal Air Force Whirlwind Helicopter is seen flying over Sellafield's Windscale Plutonium Factory yesterday during tests with geiger counters for radio activity. The reason for the precautions were because of overheating of the uranium charges in the number one pile the week before.<br>10th October 1957

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RAF Whirlwind Helicopter flying over Sellafield's Windscale Plutonium Factory with geiger counters to test radio activity. 10 October 1957