Multimedia | film profile
Journey to the Safest Place on Earth
This film examines the limitations and contradictions of finding safe places for nuclear waste storage.
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Multimedia | journal article
"'Rather Active Today than Radioactive Tomorrow!' Environmental Justice and the Anti-Nuclear Movement in 1970s Wyhl, West Germany"
This article applies new understandings of environmental justice theory to a specific local case study. It uses a broader conception of environmental justice theory to further our understanding of the rise of the German anti-nuclear movement.
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"GAU: Nuclear Reactors and the 'Maximum Credible Accident'"
This essay traces the history of the nuclear risk discourse and policy in West Germany from the first use of the term GAU in the 1960s to the present. A close examination of the term reveals that it is in fact ambiguous, oscillating between support of nuclear energy and criticism of it.
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Greenpeace: Von der Hippiebewegung zum Ökokonzern
Frank Zelko’s study of Greenpeace is the first detailed study of the group’s history, from it’s origins as a loose-knit group of anti-nuclear and anti-whaling activists to the influential organization it is today.
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Marching Activists: Transnational Lessons for Danish Anti-Nuclear Protest
Anti-nuclear activism in Denmark was characterized by information campaigns and peaceful marches.
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Photograph: Anti-nuclear protest, Wyhl, Germany, 1975
An unexpected group of activists, consisting of mostly farmers and vintners, occupied the construction site of a nuclear reactor near the German town of Wyhl in 1975.
Multimedia | Env. blogs & websites
Nuclear Humanities
Nuclear Humanities showcases interdisciplinary approaches to the problem of nuclear harm through a five-day workshop sponsored by Whitman College’s 2016 O’Donnell Endowed Chair in Global Studies.
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Kernkraftwerk Gösgen: In the Towering Presence of Nuclear Power
This article examines the implementation of the Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland, as well as its surrounding controversies.
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Godzilla as the Bridge: The Destruction of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima
Godzilla has come to represent Japan’s Triple Disasters and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki within one singular body.
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Hostage to Nuclear Power Plants: Weekly Funeral Procession Protest at the Wolsong Nuclear Power Plants, Gyeongju, South Korea
The residents near Wolsong Nuclear Power Plants at Gyeongju, South Korea, protest to claim their rights to live with dignity.