The nuclear dream. The hidden world of atomic energy
Creators
Description
The peaceful use of nuclear energy was the most momentous utopian technical undertaking in German post-war history and led to one of the country's greatest social conflicts. Although iconic domes and cooling towers have become symbols of this technology, the rest of the nuclear world is practically invisible. Over a period of seven years, Bernhard Ludewig photographed both the buildings and the processes carried out within them - predominantly in Germany but also elsewhere in Europe and in South America. His enlightening images provide a rare glimpse behind the scenes: power plants and open reactors, cooling towers and control rooms, uranium centrifuges and repositories, research reactors and Cherenkov radiation, construction and demolition. The Nuclear Dream reveals a world that is now on the decline in Germany yet once promised an unlimited supply of energy.
Abstract (German)
Die friedliche Nutzung der Kernenergie war die folgenreichste technische Utopie der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte und führte zu einem ihrer größten gesellschaftlichen Konflikte. Während die ikonischen Kuppeln und Kühltürme zum Symbol wurden, ist der Rest der nuklearen Welt praktisch unsichtbar. Bernhard Ludewig hat ihre Orte und Arbeitsschritte über sieben Jahre fotografiert – vor allem in Deutschland, aber auch anderswo in Europa und in Südamerika. Seine Bilder gewähren einen einzigartigen Blick hinter die Kulissen: Kraftwerke und offene Reaktoren, Kühltürme und Kontrollräume, Uranzentrifugen und Endlager, Forschung und blaues Leuchten, Bau und Abriss. Der nukleare Traum zeigt eine in Deutschland verschwindende Technikwelt, die einst grenzenlose Energie versprach.Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (German)
- Der nukleare Traum. Die Geschichte der deutschen Atomkraft
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- DOM Publishers
- Imprint Place
- Berlin (Germany)
- ISBN
- 978-3-86922-088-8
- Imprint Pagination
- 418 p.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 51064947
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CENTRIFUGES; CHERENKOV RADIATION; CONTROL ROOMS; COOLING TOWERS; ENRICHMENT; FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; REACTOR DISMANTLING; RESEARCH REACTORS; SOUTH AMERICA; URANIUM
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDES; CONCENTRATORS; DEMOLITION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTS; ENERGY; ENERGY SOURCES; EUROPE; FUELS; LATIN AMERICA; MATERIALS; METALS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER PLANTS; RADIATIONS; REACTOR LIFE CYCLE; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; WESTERN EUROPE