Happy New Year Everyone! I hope wherever you are that you had a wonderful New Year’s Eve and a great start into the next year ahead. Personally, 2025 was a really good year and I am very grateful for all the opportunities I got, the people that came into my life, and the new perspectivesContinue reading “2025 had been a good year – on to 2026!”
Category Archives: Chernobyl
NTM Article Prize 2025 Ceremony in Dresden
On 25 September, I was invited for this year’s GWMT annual meeting to Dresden, Germany. Within the halls of the German Hygiene Museum in Saxonia’s capitals I received the NTM Article Prize for Young Authors. My article “Creating Chernobyl. Technocratic Culture and Everyday Life in Nuclear Ukraine, 1970-1982” convinced the board. Naturally, I am veryContinue reading “NTM Article Prize 2025 Ceremony in Dresden”
The Technocratic Culture Behind Chernobyl’s Disaster
Recently my new article about nuclear Ukraine was published. In this article, I am using a technocratic culture perspective to analyse what was going on at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant before that fateful night in April 1986, when reactor block four exploded.
New Publication: Exploring Chernobyl’s Connection to Dnieper Hydropower
Today my article “Joining the Dnieper Cascade. An Envirotechnical Water-History of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 1927-1986” was published online in the journal Water History. I am really happy that this was possible. You should check it out! Unsurprisingly, I am indebted to so many people who supported me during the four years this little projectContinue reading “New Publication: Exploring Chernobyl’s Connection to Dnieper Hydropower”
The 39th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Catastrophe in a World Blind to Environmental Concerns
Unfortunately, I am getting a bit angry at society at large during these last months. Sure, there were many larger and smaller political issues that demanded time and attention from everyone. Lest we forget that there is a brutal war going on in Ukraine, Palestine, Yemen, and unfortunately many other parts of this world. ButContinue reading “The 39th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Catastrophe in a World Blind to Environmental Concerns”
Tensions of Europe is coming up!
*Update: Unfortunately I was forced to cancel my in-person-participation at the conference due to urgent private matters that reached me yesterday night. I will be giving the presentation remotely via Zoom. (As of 2024-09-18)* In already two weeks we are going to meet in Frankfurt (Oder) for the next Tensions of Europe conference, discussing tonsContinue reading “Tensions of Europe is coming up!”
Remembering Chernobyl
Today is the 38th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe, which began on 26 April 1986 at 1.23 am. At the moment it is impossible to remember what happened at the downstream end of the Pripyat River without thinking about the horrible war taking place in Ukraine. What we witness right now has never happened before:Continue reading “Remembering Chernobyl”
Nucleocrats Don’t Sleep
The following essay is a repost from a text written by me and published on the blog Undisciplined Environments on 31 March 2021. Check out the blog! It is wonderful and lots of interesting people publish there on relevant topics regarding climate change, social change, and energy transition. In a global state of climate emergency,Continue reading “Nucleocrats Don’t Sleep”
Achim Klüppelberg 