Michel Poinsignon / Cooling towers of Nuclear power station with farmland and straw bales in the foreground, Cattenom, France

Michel Poinsignon / Electricity wires in front of cooling towers of Nuclear power station, Cattenom, France

Gerry Ellis / Gas effluence pouring out of smoke stacks at nuclear power plant, upper Ohio River, Ohio

Chris Mattison / Torness nuclear power station. Lothian, Scotland, August 2012.

Chris Mattison / Torness nuclear power station. Lothian, Scotland, August 2012.

Chris Mattison / Torness nuclear power station. Lothian, Scotland, August 2012.

Michel Poinsignon / Nuclear power station in silhouette at sunrise with reflection in water, Cattenom, France, April 2009.

Sue Flood / Engine room of worlds largest nuclear icebreaker, "NS 50 Let Pobedy" (50 Years of Victory) August 2008

Sue Flood / Engine room of world's largest nuclear icebreaker, "NS 50 Let Pobedy" (50 Years of Victory) August 2008

Sue Flood / Engine room of world's largest nuclear icebreaker, "NS 50 Let Pobedy" (50 Years of Victory) August 2008

Doug Allan / Woman standing by bow and anchor of Russian nuclear icebreaker, "NS 50 Let Pobedy" 50 years of Victory, North Pole, July 2008

Merryn Thomas / Tuamotu Atoll nuclear memorial, Inisheer beach, Aran Islands, Ireland, May 2009.

Philippe Clement / The windmill Scheldedijkmolen and cooling towers of the Doel Nuclear Power Station along the river Scheldt at Kieldrecht / Beveren, Belgium

Ernie Janes / Marguerite / Ox-eye daisies flowering beside nuclear power station, Sizewell, Suffolk, UK, June

Ernie Janes / Sizewell nuclear power station on beach, Sizewell, Suffolk, UK, June

Ernie Janes / Beach landscape with fishing baskets in foreground and Sizewell nuclear energy reactor in background, Sizewell, Suffolk, UK

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Woman tending Cucumber (Cucumis sp.) plants in greenhouse heated by nuclear power station at Bilibino, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia, 1994.

Michel Poinsignon / Silhouette of the Cattenom nuclear power station at sunset, reflected in the Moselle river, Lorraine, France, April 2009

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Russian Nuclear Icebreaker "Sovetskiy Soyuz" cutting through sea ice. Arctic Ocean, 1998.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Russian Nuclear Icebreaker "Sovetskiy Soyuz" approaching tabular Iceberg in Tichaja Buchta. Franz Josef Land, 1998.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Tourists dancing around the North Pole by Russian Nuclear Icebreaker "Sovetskiy Soyuz", 1998.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Russian Nuclear Icebreaker "Sovetskiy Soyuz" visiting North Pole with group of tourists. Arctic Ocean, 1998.

David Woodfall / Lave fisherman, fishing for Salmon using traditional methods, with decommissioned Berkeley nuclear power station behind. This way of life is potentially under threat from proposed barrage. Gloucesters...

David Woodfall / Tourists / local residents enjoying views of the Severn Estuary. Berkeley nuclear power station in background. England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Berkeley nuclear power station (now decommissioniing) on banks of Severn Estuary. England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Berkeley nuclear power station (now decommissioniing) on banks of Severn Estuary. England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Berkeley nuclear power station (now decommissioning) on banks of Severn Estuary. England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Shellfish / Flatfish fisherman checking nets / long lines near Hinkley Point nuclear power station. Severn Estuary. England , August 2009

David Woodfall / Ancient peat forest, covered in seaweed, with Hinkleypoint Nuclear power station. Bridgewater Bay NNR, Severn estuary, Somerset, England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Ancient peat forest, covered in seaweed, with Hinkleypoint Nuclear power station. Bridgewater Bay NNR, Severn estuary, Somerset, England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Ancient peat forest, covered in seaweed, with Hinkleypoint Nuclear power station. Bridgewater Bay NNR, Severn estuary, Somerset, England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Ancient peat forest, covered in seaweed, with Hinkleypoint Nuclear power station. Bridgewater Bay NNR, Severn estuary, Somerset, England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Curlews (Numenius arquata) flying into roost with Hinkley point, Nuclear power station in background, Bridgewater Bay NNR, Somerset, England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Curlews (Numenius arquata) flying into roost with Hinkley point, Nuclear power station in background, Bridgewater Bay NNR, Somerset, England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Curlews (Numenius arquata) flying into roost with Hinkley point, Nuclear power station in background, Bridgewater Bay NNR, Somerset, England, August 2009

Sue Flood / Aerial view of the worlds largest nuclear icebreaker, "NS 50 Lyet Pobyedi" (50 years of Victory) on the way to the North Pole, Russian Arctic, July 2008

Sue Flood / Aerial view of the world's largest nuclear icebreaker, "NS 50 Lyet Pobyedi" (50 years of Victory) en route to the North Pole, Russian Arctic, July 2008

Sue Flood / Aerial view of the worlds largest nuclear icebreaker, "NS 50 Lyet Pobyedi" (50 years of Victory) on the way to the North Pole, Russian Arctic, July 2008

Sue Flood / Cameraman Doug Allan, sitting on anchor of Russian nuclear icebreaker, NS 50 Lyet Pobyedi (50 years of Victory) en route to the North Pole, July 2008

Sue Flood / Canadian artist, David McEown, painting a watercolour of Russian nuclear icebreaker "Yamal" at the North Pole, July 2007

Sue Flood / Aerial view of Russian nuclear icebreaker, NS 50 Lyet Pobyedi (50 years of Victory) en route to North Pole, July 2008

Sue Flood / Aerial view of Russian nuclear icebreaker, "NS 50 Lyet Pobyedi" (50 Years of Victory) with tourists on ice, at the North Pole, July 2008

Sue Flood / Aerial view of Russian nuclear icebreaker, "NS 50 Lyet Pobyedi" (50 Years of Victory) with tourists on ice, at the North Pole, July 2008

Sue Flood / Russian nuclear icebreaker "Yamal" in the Russian Arctic, July 2008

Sue Flood / Russian nuclear icebreaker, "NS 50 Lyet Pobyedi" (50 Years of Victory) at the North Pole, July 2008

Michel Poinsignon / Cooling towers of Nuclear power station with farmland in the foreground, Cattenom, France

Michel Poinsignon / Cooling towers of Nuclear power station, Cattenom, France

Michel Poinsignon / Electricity pylon beside cooling towers of Nuclear power station, Cattenom, France

David Tipling / View across Minsmere RSPB Reserve from Dunwich towards Sizewell nuclear power station at dusk, winter, Suffolk, UK, January 2008

Sue Flood / Russian nuclear icebreaker "Yamal" travelling through ice en route to the North Pole July 2007

Sue Flood / View over ice from deck of Russian nuclear icebreaker "Yamal" travelling to the North Pole July 2007

Sue Flood / Aerial view of the Russian nuclear icebreaker "Yamal" travelling through ice on its way to the North Pole, July 2007

Sue Flood / View from deck of Russian nuclear icebreaker "Yamal" travelling through ice en route to the North Pole July 2007

Adrian Davies / Eucalyptus tree that survived the Atomic bomb in 1945. Approx 740 metres from bomb hypocentre, Hiroshima, Japan.

David Tipling / Sea kale {Crambe maritima} with Dungeness nuclear power station in background, Kent, UK

Chris Gomersall / Nuclear power station, Bradwell, Essex, UK

Doug Wechsler / Chemist analyzing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for environment contaminants, USA

Doug Wechsler / Aerial view of Salem nuclear power plant cooling tower at edge of saltmarshes, Delaware Bay, New Jersey, USA

Doug Wechsler / Aerial view of Salem nuclear power plant built on saltmarsh, Delaware Bay, New Jersey, USA

Niall Benvie / Panoramic view of Torness nuclear power station, East Lothian, Scotland, UK

Jean E. Roche / Golfech nuclear power station, Garonne river, France

Dave Watts / Cooling towers of Nuclear energy power plant, France

Gerry Ellis / Gas effluence from nuclear power plant, upper Ohio River, Ohio

Onne van der Wal / A US nuclear submarine surfacing off Hawaii, Pacific Islands 1994

Onne van der Wal / A US nuclear submarine surfacing off Hawaii, Pacific Islands. 1994

Rick Tomlinson / Heavily reefed, "Nuclear Electric" beats out of the Solent at the start of the BT Global Challenge, 1996.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Tourists from Russian nuclear icebreaker "Sovetskiy Soyuz" dancing around the world at the North Pole, 1998.

David Woodfall / Looking east to Berkeley, decommissioned nuclear power station, with exposed sand banks on bed of Severn estuary, Gloucestershire, England, UK April 2010

Jim Brandenburg / Drums of radioactive waste, Namibia

DAVID TIPLING / Dungeness nuclear power station Kent UK Sea Kale {Crambe maritima}

Doug Wechsler / Cooling towers at Three mile island nuclear power station Pennsylvania USA site of