Last updated 15:43, Wednesday, 19 November 2008

LAKES COLLEGE saw 50 primary school children from across West Cumbria display their work on the nuclear industry.

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APPLIANCE OF SCIENCE: Hiroyuki Ono with Beckstone Primary School pupils Natasha Hargreaves and Joshua Phillips

But this display had a different purpose - the children were presenting their work to a Japanese nuclear industry VIP.

Mr Hiroyuki Ono from the Japan Atomic Power Company was at the science roadshow before going to see the exhibition of work and enjoying a tour of the college.

The exhibition was an exchange of pictures created by school children from Victoria Junior School, Westfield Primary School, Beckstone Primary School, Distington Community School and St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Harrington and from children in similar areas of Japan.

Lakes College art students also helped the children with their images on the local area and its customs.

The science roadshow saw a variety of exciting visual experiments such as layering liquids and making toothpaste. The children also saw experiemnts using bicarbonate putting it into a balloon and adding vinegar to demonstrate how to inflate it and making raisins dance by dropping them into a beaker of lemonade.

Nuclear power and reprocessing are industries shared between the UK and Japan.

The artwork will be sent to Japan to be displayed in the country's nuclear power areas.