Nuclear Power Station Collection

Aerial image of Dungeness Nuclear Power Station, Dungeness headland, Kent, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Three Mile Island nuclear power station, seen from across the Susquehanna River at night. This power station was the site of a nuclear accident on the 28th March 1979

Indian Point nuclear power station at night, seen from across the Hudson River. This is the Indian Point Energy Centre (IPEC), a 3-unit pressurised water reactor nuclear power station

Topping out JLP01_08_051048a
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A view of cranes on either side of a reactor on the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station construction site

Scientists Inside A Fusion Reactor

Scientist Working In A Fusion Reactor F003 / 6438
Scientist Working In A Fusion Reactor

Outfall works JLP01_01_077_68
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. An aerial view looking east over the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station construction site, showing the outfall works

Parking at the office JLP01_01_075_38
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Looking south-west over the temporary offices on the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station construction site

Constructing Reactor 1 JLP01_01_075_16
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A view looking east over Reactor No.1 during the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

Excavators and dump trucks JLP01_01_074_36
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 43 RB excavators and 15 ton dump trucks carrying out the excavation for the reactor during the construction of Berkeley

Lift 29 JLP01_08_052161
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A team of workers, on lift 29 of the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

High water table JLP01_08_048996
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A view across a flooded area of the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station construction site

Camp kitchen JLP01_01_081_66
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. The kitchen of the Balfour Beatty camp on the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station construction site with four men cooking

Reactor 1 biological shield JLP01_01_078_69
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Looking down at the east side of Reactor No.1 during the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

Berkeley Power Station from the air 1960 JLP01_08_056848b
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. An aerial view from north-west over the River Severn showing Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

A doll is seen amongst beds at a kindergarten in the abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine March 28, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

General scenes of the construction of the Hunterson, a Nuclear Power Station. 1955 A809-001 Picture circa 1st MArch 1955

Nuclear power station Dukovany, Trebic district, Czech Republic
The Dukovany Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power plant near Dukovany, a village in the Czech Republic located 30 kilometres from the city of Trebic, near the Dalešice Reservoir

Nuclear power station Cattenom, Mosel valley, Moselle, Lorraine, Grand Est, France

Parking at the office JLP01_01_075_02
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A view looking south-west over the bus park and temporary offices on the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station construction site

Constructing Reactor 1 JLP01_01_074_10
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A view over Reactor No.1 during the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

Ecavating Reactor 2 JLP01_01_074_07
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A view showing progress on the excavation of Reactor No.2 during the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

Nuclear Power Station construction 1950s JLP01_01_074_02
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A view looking north-west over Reactor No.1 during the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

Clocking out JLP01_01_074_01
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Workers queuing at the Time Office and Clocking Station at the close of a normal working day on the construction site

Mobile drilling gig JLP01_08_049141
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A deep well being drilled with a mobile gig during the lowering of ground water for the reactor excavation at Berkeley

Delivering groceries JLP01_08_048781
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. The local butchers wife delivering supplies to Mrs Glover

Postman JLP01_08_048778
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A local postman watching with interest heavy machinery at work during the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

Temporary office JLP01_08_048777
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Mrs Short the Typist and G A Cooke the Office Manager standing outside the Laing Mobile Office on the Berkeley Nuclear Power

Spraying concrete JLP01_01_083_82
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A worker carrying out guniting (spraying concrete)

Diver JLP01_01_083_22
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A figure in a diving suit preparing for an inspection of the works at the intake for Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

Bailey bridge and intake works JLP01_01_081_48
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A view along the Bailey bridge towards the intake works on the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station construction site

Excavators and dump trucks JLP01_01_080_75
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A view of earth-moving vehicles carrying out excavation work during the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

The cooling water tunnel JLP01_01_078_01
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Two workers cleaning the face of the excavation for the cooling water tunnel during the construction of Berkeley Nuclear

Lab technician JLP01_08_053108
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A technician working in the lab at the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station construction site, experimenting with ratios of cement

Lift 29 JLP01_08_052166
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A team of workers, on lift 29 of the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

Lift 29 JLP01_08_052162a
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A team of workers, on lift 29 of the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

Berkeley Power Station from the air 1960 JLP01_08_058401a
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. An aerial view from the south-west of the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station construction site

Berkeley Power Station from the air 1960 JLP01_08_058398
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. An aerial view from the south-east showing Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

Berkeley Power Station from the air 1960 JLP01_08_056848c
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A view from inside a plane flying over Berkeley Nuclear Power Station during its construction

Berkeley Power Station from the air 1960 JLP01_08_056848a
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. An aerial view from the south-west showing Berkeley Nuclear Power Station and its reactors during construction

Diver JLP01_08_054725a
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A figure in a diving suit preparing for an inspection of the works at the intake for Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

Placing precast panels JLP01_08_053316a
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A worker wearing a two-way radio set, helping to guide a precast concrete panel into position during the construction of

Placing precast panels JLP01_08_053312
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A worker helping to lower a precast concrete panel into position during the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

German Campact activist demonstrates against the nuclear plans of the German government
A German Campact (Campaign and Action) activist casts his shadow as he demonstrates against the nuclear plans of the German government in Berlin, October 25, 2010

A bird flies over the Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant in Goldsboro, Pennsylvania, U.S. May 30, 2017. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

View over the city of Huy in Belgium and Meuse River to the distant nuclear power station of Tihange

An angler weighs up his prospects in the shadow of Trawsfynydd in Snowdonia, an inland nuclear power station. Circa 1966

Britains first civil atomic power station Bradwell, Essex, has been inspected by agents from the International Atomic Agency

Reactor hall: BOR-60 fast breeder nuclear reactor
Fast breeder reactor. Reactor hall of the BOR-60 fast breeder nuclear reactor in Dimitrovgrad, Russia. Fast breeder reactor cores use plutonium fuel surrounded by uranium; they are cooled by molten

Control Room, Sizewell B Power Station
Sizewell B in Suffolk is the UKs only commercial pressurised water reactor (PWR) power station. PWRs constitute a majority of all western nuclear power plants

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A summer storm at Southwold starts to clear as light breaks through above Sizewell power station in the distance

Calder Hall nuclear power station, Cumbria. Artist: UKAEA
Calder Hall nuclear power station, Cumbria. Calder Hall, the worlds first full scale commercial nuclear power station opened on 17 October 1956

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CJ7 0647 Reactors in the mist, Sizewell
Reactors in the mist, A weekend in Suffolk, autumn, countryside, East Anglia, Great Britain, nature, October 2017. England, outdoors, Suffolk, UK, Sizewell, Nuclear power station, coastal

Worker in a control room of nuclear power station

Dungeness B nuclear power station, England

Nuclear reactor of Sizewell B power station
Pressurised water reactor (PWR) at Sizewell B nuclear power station. The reactor (grey, at lower centre) uses enriched uranium as a fuel. Energy is released as the atomic nuclei split (fission)

Nuclear fuel pellets. These are used in nuclear power stations to provide the fuel for the controlled nuclear fission reactions that provide energy

Nuclear Reactor Vessel, Sizewell. tif C009 / 7038
Sizewell B in Suffolk is the UKs only commercial pressurised water reactor (PWR) power station. PWRs constitute a majority of all western nuclear power plants

Cheviot-Black Sheep graze at Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station, Cumberland, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Sheep at Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station, Cumberland, 20th century. Calder Hall, first connected to the grid on 27 August 1956 and officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 17 October 1956

Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station, Cumberland, UK, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station, Cumberland, UK, 20th century. Cooling towers (left) and reactors (centre) with transmission lines at the worlds first

Flow chart showing how a nuclear power station produces electricity

Illustration of nuclear power station

Robots walking about a landscape destroyed by pollution

Alien and UFO activity at a nuclear power station

Aliens visiting a nuclear power station

Smoke erupting from cooling towers of a nuclear power plant, Grafenrheinfeld, Schweinfurt, Lower Franconia, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

View from Karlsturm tower at Peterstirn Castle over the Main River with Schweinfurt municipal park and industrial estate, with Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Power Plant in the distance, Schweinfurt

Flag of the International Telecommunication Union, ITU

Atomic Cooling Tower
16th October 1956: Water cascading down at the bottom of the giant cooling towers at the worlds first full-scale atomic power station at Calder Hall, Cumberland. (Photo by L)

EU, France, Rhone Valley, Drome, Pierrelatte. Nuclear reactor towers by Rhone River

Nuclear power plant construction C017 / 9442
Nuclear power plant construction. Reactor being assembled in the BN-800 fast breeder reactor building being built at the Beloyarsk nuclear power station, Sverdlovsk Region, Russia

Nuclear power plant construction C017 / 9444
Nuclear power plant construction. Workers outside the BN-800 fast breeder reactor building being built at the Beloyarsk nuclear power station, Sverdlovsk Region, Russia

Nuclear power plant construction C017 / 9443
Nuclear power plant construction. Reactor being assembled in the BN-800 fast breeder reactor building being built at the Beloyarsk nuclear power station, Sverdlovsk Region, Russia

Heysham nuclear power stations C013 / 9748
Heysham nuclear power stations lit up at dusk across Heysham harbour, Lancashire, UK. Heysham 1 is at left and Heysham 2 at right

Heysham nuclear power stations C013 / 9747
Heysham nuclear power stations lit up at dusk. Heysham 1 is at right and Heysham 2 at left. The Heysham nuclear power stations, located on the same site at Heysham harbour, Lancashire, UK

Sizewell B nuclear reactor dome, Sizewell, Suffolk, UK. This dome houses the nuclear reactor that generates electricity by heating water to make superheated steam

Oldbury nuclear power station, Gloustershire, UK. This power station uses Magnox reactors to draw energy from hundreds of tonnes of fissioning uranium

Nuclear power station turbine. The turbine is housed in the cylindrical area at centre, and is partially sunk into the floor

Nuclear power station turbine room. This is the engine section of the turbine room. The turbine room is where steam is used to drive turbines to produce electricity

Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station, Scotland
Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station. Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station, Annan, Dumfries, Scotland. Commissioned in 1959, Chapelcross was based on Calder Hall, England

Hartlepool nuclear power station and electricity pylons, near Hartlepool, UK. This power station uses two advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGRs) and two other generators

Oldbury nuclear power station open day. Visitors looking down at Magnox uranium fuel elements (lower centre, yellow) on top of one of the Magnox reactor cores

Protective nuclear suit
Protective suit. Worker in a nuclear power station, wearing special garments for radiation protection

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"Nuclear Power Stations: Harnessing Energy, Facing Challenges" From the aerial image of Dungeness Nuclear Power Station in Kent to the infamous Three Mile Island and Indian Point nuclear power stations, these structures stand as symbols of humanity's quest for energy. The topping out ceremony captured in JLP01_08_051048a signifies the completion of another milestone in harnessing this powerful resource. Inside fusion reactors like F003/6438, scientists tirelessly work towards achieving sustainable nuclear fusion, a potential game-changer for clean energy production. Their dedication is evident as they navigate within these complex machines, striving to unlock their immense potential. However, not all tales are filled with optimism. In Prepyate, brave individuals hose down contaminated buildings following a devastating incident. An eerie aerial view of Chernobyl soon after its catastrophic accident reminds us of the risks involved in harnessing such formidable power. Justice seeks accountability too; court cases against Chernobyl employees remind us that safety must always be paramount when dealing with nuclear technology. Europe's Temelin Nuclear Power Station stands as a testament to lessons learned from past mistakes – built in 2000 and located in South Bohemia, it showcases advancements made towards safer operations. The Leningrad nuclear power station serves as an example of international cooperation amidst political tensions. Despite differences between nations, efforts are made to ensure safe and efficient utilization of this controversial energy source. Outfall works depicted by JLP01_01_077_68 highlight ongoing environmental concerns surrounding nuclear plants' waste management systems. Striking a balance between progress and preservation remains crucial for our collective future. These glimpses into the world of nuclear power stations reveal both triumphs and challenges faced by humanity on its path towards sustainable energy solutions. As we continue exploring alternative sources while improving safety measures, let us remember that responsible innovation holds the key to unlocking this vast potential without compromising our planet or endangering lives.