František Šebesta

"They were rather upset. Emotions were running high. It was mostly fathers representing their family. Everyone cried after they got home. I know people who were eventually moved out and retirees who were moved into flats – all of them were unhappy. They wept over it. As they say, they just waited for death to come."

"I have already come to terms with the fact that I have lost my land and my birthplace. But if I could, I would definitely build a new house there again. I would spend the rest of my life there." - "Does the place still attract you?" - " All the time, because I know almost every tree and every corner where we played as children."

"We found out from the workers who worked on the wells when examining the subsoil. They said we were unlucky because ours was the best. And they were right. From 1982, various politicians and experts kept coming. Most of them just lied to us. They said no village within three kilometres is allowed. But it wasn't true. Because Temelín is just a kilometre and half to the centre from the nuclear power plant. And it is still there today."