Publications

Articles

Klüppelberg, Achim: Nuclear and Hydrotechnical Expertise Combined: Gidroproekt and the South Ukraine Energy Complex, in: Europe-Asia Studies, 27 March 2024.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Ein Besuch in der Ukraine vor dem Krieg – im November 2021, in: Schwedische Kirche, Deutsche St. Gertruds Gemeinde: Gemeindeblatt, No. 2 01 April – 31 Mai 2022, pp. 5-7.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Zum 35. Jahrestag von Tschernobyl. Das sowjetische Erbe der russländischen Atomindustrie, in: Russland-Analysen, Nr. 402/ 14.05.2021.

Lizensausgabe: Klüppelberg, Achim: Analyse: Zum 35. Jahrestag von Tschernobyl. Das sowjetische Erbe der russländischen Atomindustrie, in: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 14 May 2021.

Lindström, Kati/ Gutting, Alicia/ Högselius, Per/ Evens, Siegfried/ Klüppelberg, Achim/ Khandozhko, Roman/ Storm, Anna: How Should History of Technology Be Written? Some Lessons From an Ongoing Research Project on the Global History of Nuclear Energy,in: Technikgeschichte, Vol. 88, Issue 2, 2021, pp. 185-190.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Zu Gast bei der Deutsch-Schwedischen Handelskammer. Ein Interview mit Dr. Ralph-Georg Tischer, in: Schwedische Kirche, Deutsche St. Gertruds Gemeinde: Gemeindeblatt, November 2020.

Klüppelberg, Achim a. Petermann, Ingemar: Soziale Isolation – die Angst vor Covid-19 und die Hoffnung auf Gott, in: Schwedische Kirche, Deutsche St. Gertruds Gemeinde: Gemeindeblatt, Nr. 3 Juni 2020.

Kompa, Ebba (Vikarin) a. Klüppelberg, Achim: Ein erster guter Schritt: Einstehen für ein weltweites Leben mit weniger Plastik, in: Schwedische Kirche, Deutsche St. Gertruds Gemeinde: Gemeindeblatt, Nr. 2 2020, 1 April till 31 May.

Books

Klüppelberg, Achim: The Nuclear Waters of the Soviet Union. Hydro-Engineering and Technocratic Culture in the Nuclear Industry, Dissertation (Compilation Thesis) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, defended on 22 March 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Högselius, Per a. Klüppelberg, Achim: The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago. A Historical Geography of Atomic-powered Communism, Vienna/ Budapest/ New York (Central European University Press) 2024.

Booklets

Klüppelberg, Achim: Kirche während des Nationalsozialismus. Das Gemeindeblatt vom 01. Oktober 1933, Beilage im Gemeindeblatt der Deutschen St. Gertruds Gemeinde in Stockholm 5 (2021).

Blogposts

Klüppelberg, Achim: Losing Lützerath and continuing the struggle for a fossil-free Europe, in: Undisciplined Environments, 09 November 2023.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Will the 1.5°C-climate limit be already broken by 2026?, in: Transformative Humanities Blog, 16 May 2022.

Klüppelberg, Achim: 36 years later – Chernobyl and the War, in: Nuclearwaters Blog, 26 April 2022.

Klüppelberg, Achim: War in Ukraine, in: Transformative Humanities Blog, 2022-03-14.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Research in Kiev, in: NUCLEARWATERS Blog, 07 December 2021.

Klüppelberg, Achim a. Evens, Siegfried: Why Water Matters for Nuclear Power, in: WaterBlog@KTH: Reflect, Rethink, Refill, June 2021.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Nucleocrats Don’t Sleep, in: Undisciplined Environments Blog, 31 March 2021.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Digitising Education – A Reflection, in: Transformative Humanities Blog, 15 March 2021.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Lithuanian Archives, Covid-19, and the Search for Archival Sources, in: NUCLEARWATERS Blog, 07 September 2020.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Mining, Waste, and the so-called nuclear fuel cycle, in: NUCLEARWATERS Blog, 13 February 2020.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Nuclear Waters at the Centre of a Soviet Technocratic Culture Analysis, in: NUCLEARWATERS Blog, 03 October 2019.

Klüppelberg, Achim/ Evens, Siegfried/ Gärdebo, Johan: Why everyone should watch HBO’s “Chernobyl”, in: KTH Transformative Humanities Blog, 03 September 2019.

Evens, Siegfried a. Klüppelberg, Achim: Remembering Chernobyl’s 33rd Sad Anniversary for New Impulses in Research, in: Nuclearwaters Blog, 26 April 2019.

Chapters and other contributions to edited volumes

Klüppelberg, Achim: Using Historical Media to Start a Public Debate on Nuclear Energy. Watching HBO’s “Chernobyl” 25 Metres Underground, in: Cornu, Armel/ Smedberg, Carl-Filip/ Vorminder, Sarah (eds.): Public History in Action. Past and Present Practices of Making History Public, Uppsala (Opuscula Historica Upsaliensia) 2023, 93-111.

Klüppelberg, Achim: 452 Jahre Deutsche Gemeinde: Der Versuch einer Chronik, in: Elisabeth Guggomos (Redaktion): Immer dieselbe, immer neu. 450 Jahre Deutsche St. Gertruds Gemeinde Stockholm, Stockholm 2023, pp. 75-85.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Travelogue: Visiting Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant During the Pandemic, in: Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment with KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory: Biennial Report 2019-2020. Integrative Humanities, June 2021.

Conference Presentations

Klüppelberg, Achim: Joining the Dnieper Cascade. An Envirotechnical Water-History of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 1950-1986, Presentation at: 12th ESEH Conference Mountains and Plains, Bern (Switzerland) 22-26 August 2023.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Joining the Dnieper Cascade. An Envirotechnical Water-History of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 1950-1986, Conference Presentation at: Chernobyl as a Historical Caesura: Environment, Politcs, and Science, Naples (Italy) 2022.

Klüppelberg, Achim: “Completely Original and Progressive”. Energy Complexes as Focal Points of Soviet Imaginaries of Progress, Conference Presentation at: ESEH- 2022, Bristol 2022.

Klüppelberg, Achim a. Lindström, Kati: The Wrong Water for a Right Purpose? A Tale of the Estonian Nuclear Power Plant Never Built at Lake Võrtsjärv, presentation at the 10th Tensions of Europe Conference: Technology, Environment and Resources, 30 June 2022.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Hydrology meets nuclear engineering. Energy complexes as focal points of Soviet imaginaries of progress, Conference Presentation at: Teknik- och vetenskapshistoriska dagar 2022, Uppsala (digital), 16-18 March 2022.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Energy Complexes as Moscow’s Way to Develop the Soviet Periphery, Conference Presentation at: CBEES (Centre for Baltic and East European Studies) 7th Annual Online Conference, Södertörn University, Stockholm, 25-26 November 2021, sh.se/cbeesannual2021.

Klüppelberg, Achim a. Lindström, Kati: Võrtsjärv under Investigation. A Fishy Tale of the Nuclear Power Plant Never Built in Estonia, presentation at BALTEHUMS II in Tallinn, 1-2 November 2021.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Between Energy Complexes and a Special Mining Industry. The Outstanding Role of the Urals and Siberia for the Soviet Nuclear Programme, Conference Presentation at: II Mezhdunarodnoj nauchnoj konferentsii “Bse menyaetsya. Klimat, obshchestvo, landschafty v istoricheskoj perspektive”/ Antroposhkola TyumGU, Tyumen 12 October 2021.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Soviet Imaginaries of Progress. Hydraulic and Nuclear Engineering in Energy Complexes, presentation at STREAMS – Transformative Environmental Humanities in Stockholm, 03 August 2021.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Soviet Imaginaries of Progress. Hydraulic and Nuclear Engineering in Energy Complexes, presentation at the Atomic Heritage Conference in Linköping, 2021-06-17.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Combining Old Hydrological And New Nuclear Tradition. Energy Complexes as The Solution to Soviet Electricity Scarcity, Conference Presentation in: ICOHTEC 2020: A History of Technology for an Age of Crisis, Eindhoven 2020.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Nuclear Decision-making in the Soviet Union. Investigating Water in Expert Cultures Concerned with the Siting of Nuclear Power Plants, Conference Presentation at: “Situating the ‘Global’ in Contemporary Humanities” Conference, HSE St. Petersburg, 2019.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Chernobyl’s Transnational Environmental Legacy, Conference Presentation in: Tenth ESEH Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, August 2019 – Boundaries in/of Environmental History.

Interviews

Högselius, Per a. Klüppelberg, Achim: The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago, conducted digitally by Andrea Tabor from Central European University Press on 12 February 2024.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Nuclear risks from Kakhovka Dam destruction and enduring issues surrounding Soviet-era energy infrastructure, interviewed by Eric Paglia, Stockholm 15 June 2023 (recorded) and 16 June 2023 (published).

Klüppelberg, Achim: 10 Jahre Fukushima, interviewed by Anina Vogt, Vincent-Leonard Roeper und Diana Becker of Greenpeace Gießen, Stockholm and Gießen 8 March 2021, published on 11 March 2021 via social media channels.

Evens, Siegfried/ Klüppelberg, Achim/ Gärdebo, Johan interviewed by Ania Obminska: Så många frågor om Tjernobyl är fortfarande obesvarade, in: Ny Teknik on 13 June 2019.

Gärdebo, Johan/ Evens, Siegfried/ Klüppelberg, Achim interviewed by Oscar Magnusson, in P3 Nyheter Sveriges Radio with the title “Vattenfall anklagas för att mörka dödssiffrorna efter Tjernobyl”, Stockholm 11 June 2019.

Essays

Jung, Frank a. Klüppelberg, Achim: Ein Draht zu Gott: Gebetskreis, in: Gemeindeblatt 5/2023, Stockholm (Deutsche St. Gertruds Gemeinde, Svenska kyrkan) November 2023.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Germany, January 2023: Digging Coal For Profits. Powerlessness and Empowerment in the Struggle for Lützerath, in: Occupy Climate Change, Atlas of the other worlds, Stockholm a. Barcelona September 2023.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Chernobyl as a Post-Soviet Memory Space. How Ideas of Progress and Fear Shaped a Nuclear Heritage Site, in: Baltic Worlds, December 2022, Vol. XV: 3-4, pp. 61-65.

Opinion pieces

Evens, Siegfried/ Gärdebo, Johan/ Klüppelberg, Achim: De serie “Chernobyl” toont grenzen van experten in coronatijden aan, in: Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie NWS, Brüssel, 15 April 2020.

Storm, Anna/ Klüppelberg, Achim/ Kasperski, Tatiana: Därför är det bara Sverige som har en svensk kärnkraftsdebatt, in: Dagens Nyheter (publicerad 27.05.2019). Printed: Dagens Nyheter 28.05.2019 (Kultur helsidan): Därför är det bara i Sverige som vi tror att kärnkraften är klimatsmart, p. 8.

Organised Panels

Nuclear Environments. Waste, Animals, Water and Infrastructure in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Co-organised Panel with Aske Hennelund Nielsen at the Conference ESEH-2023, Bern 2023, Participants: Anna Storm, Rebecca Öhnfeldt, Axel Sievers, and Melina Antonia Buns.

Seeing Nuclear Energy Systems through the Lens of Water, Organised Panel at the Conference ESEH-2022, Bristol 2022, Participants: Siegfried Evens, Anna Storm, and Per Högselius.

Reviews

Klüppelberg, Achim: Frontbeziehungen. Geschlechterverhältnisse und Gewaltdynamiken in der Roten Armee 1941-1945, Europe-Asia Studies, 2021, 73:4, pp. 780-781, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2021.1912929, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09668136.2021.1912929 [2021-05-14].

Talks

Klüppelberg, Achim: Hydro-Nuclear Entanglements in Soviet Ukraine, Presentation at the CHORUS Seminar Series, online on 18 April 2024.

Klüppelberg, Achim: The Nuclear Waters of the Soviet Union. Hydro-Engineering and Technocratic Culture in the Nuclear Industry, Public Defence in Doctoral Education at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 22 March 2024.

Klüppelberg, Achim: From Hydro to Nuclear Power. The Role of Water in the Soviet Nuclear Industry, presentation at the WaterCentre@KTH brown bag lunch seminar at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Stockholm 10 October 2023.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Tschernobyl und die Dnepr Kaskade 1950-1986. Das AKW aus einer wassergeschichtlichen Perspektive, analysiert mit dem Werkzeug „Envirotechnical Systems“ von Sara Pritchard, Presentation at the Higher Seminar of the Institute for History, Division of History of Technology (Martina Heßler), at Darmstadt Technical University in Germany, 07 February 2023.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Tschernobyl und die Dnepr Kaskade 1950-1986. Das AKW aus einer wassergeschichtlichen Perspektive, analysiert mit dem Werkzeug „Envirotechnical Systems“ von Sara Pritchard, Presentation at the Higher Seminar of the Division for Eastern European History (Klaus Gestwa) at Tübingen University in Germany, 30 January 2023.

Teaching

Energy Systems in Society (AK2207) (7.5 credits, Per Högselius) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Role: Lecturer “Risk and Nuclear Energy”, Spring 2021.

History of Science and Technology (AK1202, 7.5 credits, Kati Lindström) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Roles: Course Assistant, Course Coordinator, and Teacher, 2019-2022.

Nuclear Narratives in the East Central European Context (5 credits, Inna Häkkinen (née Sukhenko) at the University of Helsinki, Online Course. Role: Lecturer “Chernobyl as a Post-Soviet Memory Space. How Ideas of Progress and Fear Shaped a Nuclear Heritage Site”on 27 February 2024.

Political Ecology (AK2210, 7.5 credits, Marco Armiero) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Roles: Teaching assistant and Teacher “Lithium Mining”, 2021.

Swedish Society, Culture and Industry in Historical Perspective (AK1213, 7.5 credits) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Roles: Module Leader “Swedish History and Politics”, Course Coordinator, Course Assistant, Seminar and Excursion Leader (Urban Planning in Stockholm, Sweden in the Arctic, Swedish History and Politics), Autumn 2018 – Autumn 2023.

Technology for Teachers in Grades 7-9 (LL137U, 45 credits, Per Högselius) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Role: Teacher for Nuclear History, 2022-2024.

Theses

Klüppelberg, Achim: Nucleocrats don’t sleep. The Cataclysm of Chernobyl as a Result of Technocratic Culture (M.A. Thesis, Committee: Maria Rhode and Ernst Wawra), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2016.

Klüppelberg, Achim: Die ideologische Bedeutung des Naturschutzes für den Nationalsozialismus. Im “Dritten Reich” und im heutigen Neonazismus – Eine Kontinuität deutscher Geschichte? [The Ideological Meaning of Nature Conservation for National Socialism. During the “Third Reich” and in Current Neo-Nazism – a Continuity of German History?], Bachelor Thesis, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, (Supervisors: Richard Hölzl and Hannah Ahlheim), September 2013.