Lecture series
Nuclear caesuras? Interdisciplinary perspectives on 40 years of Chernobyl & 15 years of Fukushima
40 years after Chernobyl and 15 years after Fukushima, the ring lecture at the University of Wuppertal is dedicated to the long-term consequences of the two largest reactor accidents in history and talks about current developments. // Photo Colourbox
Against the backdrop of current developments - including concerns about the safety of the Chernobyl sarcophagus in the context of the Russian war of aggression, the ongoing search for final storage sites for radioactive waste and the debate about new nuclear power plants as part of climate protection - the question of how nuclear disasters still characterise the international approach to nuclear energy today will be explored.
The four lectures approach the topic from a historical and political science perspective. The dates at a glance:
- 22 April: Peaceful or Military? Retrospective on Soviet and Post-Soviet Nuclear Programmes on the 40th Anniversary of Chernobyl (Dr Tatiana Kasperski, Södertörn University, Sweden)
- 29 April: Fukushima as an external shock: Mechanisms of political change between policy learning and issue competition in the German nuclear phase-out (Professor Volker Schneider, University of Konstanz)
- 6 May: From technical miracle to problem child. Biographies of perceptions of German and British nuclear power plants from planning to everyday operation (Dr Christian Götter, Technische Universität Braunschweig)
- 20 May: Nuclear caesuras - institutional continuity? Nuclear power and the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (Professor Elisabeth Röhrlich, University of Vienna)
The events start at 6 pm and take place in Building O, Level 07, Room 28 (0.07.28) on the Grifflenberg campus. Interested parties are cordially invited.
Further information: izwt.uni-wuppertal.de/de/veranstaltungen/ringvorlesung/
