nuclear power

This film examines the limitations and contradictions of finding safe places for nuclear waste storage.

This film reveals how the United States—after having dropped 67 nuclear bombs on the Marshall Islands during the Cold War—studied the effects of nuclear fallout on the native population.

The essay sheds light on the implications of Chernobyl as a national site of memory in Germany, France, and Belarus. The comparative perspective reveals the importance of underlying structures such as national (nuclear) politics, elite and expert culture, environmentalism, and the role of individual agency.

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.

The discovery of the nuclear chain reaction enabled the construction of atomic bombs and nuclear power plants—something never intended by the scientists.

Soft Energy Paths serves as an important historic milestone: an intelligent and convincing argument for conservation and the use of renewable energy.

Energy innovator Amory Lovins shows how to get the United States off oil and coal by 2050 cheaply and easily, by integrating sectors as well as innovations.

Ecological Sites of Memory is a RCC project that seeks to look into the historical memories that resonate in our environmental thinking.