a meeting with Slovak Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar, Klima said the experts would inspect the plant between May 5 and May 7. "All safety questions will be investigated," Klima said. The plant has been widely criticised by both Western and Slovakian environmentalists as outdated, dangerous and unreliable. Meciar said the experts would be given full access for their inspection and that he would recognise the results of their findings. "I guarantee that the experts will be able to visit and to inspect the reactor," he said. Meciar said he had to ordered a stop to the loading of nuclear fuel into the plant, which began earlier on Monday, by making a telephone call during his meeting with Klima. But he did not say whether Slovakia would take any action if the inspection team found the plant to be unsafe. Austria fiercely opposes nuclear power programmes and has expressed particular concern about the plant, which lies around 120 km (75 miles) from the its border. Work on the plant at Mochovce began in the mid-1980s, but was suspended in 1989 after the project ran into financial problems and required safety upgrades. The first reactor is scheduled to be completed by the end of June and the second by the end of March. While the two leaders met inside Vienna`s government headquarters, environmentalist protesters gathered outside, holding up a large banner which read: "Mr Meciar, stop Mochovce! No more Chernobyls!."