14th Junior Eco-Expert Project

Energy and the Environment

Group : 2Leader of the group: Milan Bumerl

Participants:Austria (Yspertal) : Christina Stern, Jacqueline Just, Verena Zeilinger, Alexander Rosner

Hungary (Tokaj): Leila Lesko, Tibor Kovcs, Attila Bodnr, Zsolt Kamenyiczki

Poland (Cieszyn): Krystian Kolaczek, Patrycja Dorulok, Metin Grzesiowski, Agnieszka Heczko

The Czech Republic (Vesel nad Lunic) : Rudolf Nowak, Ivana Kuchykov, Ji Zika, Miroslav Clek, Martin Zzvorka

TaskVisiting the nuclear power station of Temelin and gaining information.

Measurements of water quality at three places at the river Vltava.

Nuclear power station Temelin:Built in 1979Built on an area of 125 ha.2 Nuclear reactors which produce energyGenerate 1,000 MW per production unitOwn storage for the radioactive waste

Use of water in the production of energy:

In the infocentrum

SITUATION

1. Hnvkovice

1. Hnvkovice

SITUATION

2. Tn nad Vltavou

SITUATION

3. Koensko

3. Koensko

3. Koensko

3. Koensko

The photometerMeasuring of the absorbance from electromagnetic radiation of the visible light.

It is based on the Lambert Beersche law.A= E*c*d

Construction parts:LightsourceShutterMonochromatorCuvetteReceiver

Parameters of Measurement:CODturbidityconductivityphosphatesnitratesamoniahardness

Our laboratory practice

Our laboratory practice

Our laboratory practice

Our laboratory practice

Results

Results

Interpretation:All in all the students can say, that the changes between the measuring points are very small. The group resulted, that there is no impact from the nuclear power station at any of these points. They think that the differences come from the Town itself and the sewage plant.

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

The project was funded from the budget of the International Visegrad Funds program Small Grants No. 111400 83

and supported by the Southbohemian Region, municipality of the town Vesel nad Lunic and group EZ a.s and Bukovsk voda.

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