PAMÁTNÍK VOJNA LEŠETICE
Autenticky dochovaný vězeňský areál, svého druhu ojedinělý ve střední Evropě. Tento původně zajatecký tábor pro německé válečné zajatce, situovaný mezi bývalými uranovými šachtami, sloužil v období 1949–1951 jako tábor nucených prací a následně do roku 1961 jako vězeňské zařízení pro politické odpůrce komunistického režimu. Expozice seznamují s perzekucí po únoru 1948, protikomunistickým odporem a přibližují dějiny uranového hornictví.
Czechs see future in nuclear with Europe's sole working uranium mine
(2 Jun 2011)
Rozna - 22 April, 2011
1. Close up of mine worker inside fast moving lift taking him down into Rozna uranium mine
2. Close up of water dropping from lift cage rushing downwards
3. Mid of elevator arriving in mine shaft, mine workers waiting
4. Mine workers walking out of lift into mine, UPSOUND: lift bell ringing
5. Jiri Sikula, Head of the Mining Department, Diamo (state monopoly uranium mining company), walking through shaft (with photographer)
6. Wide of mine workers Zdenek Novodny and Petr Penaz mining with drills
7. Mine worker Zdenek Novodny using drill
8. Close up of uranium ore being removed with drill from shaft wall
9. Mid front shot of mine worker Petr Penaz working with huge drill
10. Close up of uranium ore in the hands of Sikula
11. Pan across Sikula and workers in shaft
12. Pan across uranium ore in large shovel
13. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Jiri Sikula, Head of the Mining Department, Diamo (Czech state-run uranium mining company)
It's an energy with prospects (referring to nuclear power), it can't be ruled out that they build reactors in Dukovany as well as in Temelin, so it's only a matter of time before we harvest this uranium that we have underground and use it for our energy independence.
14. Close up of dosimeter showing reading 3 Microsievert, UPSOUND: (Czech) Jiri Sikula, Head of the Mining Department, Diamo (Czech state-run uranium mining company):
We were exposed to an absolute minimum dose and it's completely insignificant, 3 Microsievert.
15. Mid of mine elevator going back upwards
16. Close up of moving winding wheels of pit head frame
17. Wide exterior of Rozna uranium mine winding tower
Near Pribram - 22 April, 2011 �
18. Wide exterior of building at shut down former uranium mine (decommissioned because it ran out of uranium), tilt up to winding tower
19. Close up of broken windows
20. Mid shot of Miroslav Karas, employee of Diamo, explaining device inside shut down former uranium mine, UPSOUND (Czech) Miroslav Karas, Diamo employee: Here you can see the speed was eight metres per second (for the ore cage).
21. Close up of writing Made in Czechoslovakia on machine
Vojna Memorial, near Pribram - 21 April, 2011
22. Wide of memorial to former prison/labour camp
23. Mid of camp buildings behind barbed wire
Prague - 21 April, 2011
24. Mid of Jiri Marek, 80, Deputy Chairman of the Czech Confederation of Political Prisoners, walking into building for meeting of former political prisoners
25. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Jiri Marek, 80, Deputy Chairman, Czech Confederation of Political Prisoners:
We had far too little food for the calories we burned. We suffered from lack of sleep, we had totally inadequate clothing. And in the mine there was no protection against radiation.
26. Mid of meeting of former political prisoners
Prague - 22 April, 2011
27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jan Rovensky, head of Greenpeace energy and climate campaign in the Czech Republic:
This new conception, this new policy, is far more suitable for the 50s of the last century than the start of the 21st century.
Near Pribram - 22 April, 2011 �
28. Wide exterior pan from winding tower across mine sandpit, at decommissioned uranium mine
29. Wide exterior of sign of former mine with winding tower in the background
STORYLINE
Deep beneath the lush Czech countryside, workers board lifts to plunge down deep mine shafts where large pneumatic drills are smashing rock in search of uranium.
An industry once associated with forced labour, tragic deaths and terminal decline is staging a dramatic comeback in the Czech Republic.
It also wants to increase the number of nuclear reactors from six to nine.
Sikula was speaking at the Rozna mine, some 160 kilometres (100 miles) southeast of Prague.
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