Headed to Stockholm next week to participate in the "40 Years After Chornobyl" international conference at Södertörn University! Can't believe it has been four decades. Apr 27 and 28. www.sh.se/english/sode...

Bergbau Brasilien: Erz gesucht - Amazonas verloren - PowerShift Brasiliens Bergbau sorgt für Zerstörung des Amazonas. Abbau kritischer Rohstoffe wie Erz torpedieren faire Rohstoffpolitik und Klimaschutz.

Heute beginnt die #HannoverMesse. #Brasilien ist Partnerland. #Rohstoffe sind ein zentrales Thema, wohl auch letzte Woche im AWZ des Bundestags. Wir haben uns mit den Folgen des Rohstoffhungers für Brasilien beschäftigt, lest mehr hier:
power-shift.de/bergbau-bras...

The Origins of Nuclear Expertise: The Formation of Nuclear Engineering Education in the US and Sweden (1950–1979) This paper explores the historical formation of nuclear engineering expertise and education in the United States and Sweden between the 1950s and 1970s. It investigates how the definition of nuclea...

📚New publication!

Expertise is currently a challenge for the nuclear industry. And a skilled workforce is key if we want our nuclear reactors to be safe

History teaches us some valuable lessons. I studied the history of nuclear engineering education in 🇺🇸 and 🇸🇪

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations! Will read.

Yesterday I was fortunate to join the Subaltern Memories Conference in Florence. It was a pleasure to present there. Everyone was super friendly and I am very grateful for the invitation!

@eui-history.bsky.social @euromemories.bsky.social

#envhist #envhum #Chernobyl #memories #Ukraine #techhist

NHK World confirms Japan has perfected a process to extract high purity lithium from dead batteries with a 90 percent recovery rate. Great

The conference will also take a broader European perspective:

💧 Environmental impacts of war #SpanishCivilWar & #Ukraine📖 Perspectives on environmental history and historiography with a guided visit to the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social
☢️ Keynote @achimklueppelberg.bsky.social on Chernobyl’s legacy

The wrong question is dominating the energy crisis debate.

Every interview starts the same: where do we find replacement fossil fuels and what happens to prices?

In this BBC interview I push back.

This is the moment to talk about escaping fossil fuel dependence - not the daily market noise.

Katholiken haben immer die passende Botschaft: #Fulda Hbf, völlig überfüllter ICE, der Zugchef fordert dazu auf, dass möglichst viele den Zug verlassen, weil er so nicht weiterfahren könne.

Nebenan Werbung für den Katholikentag in #Würzburg: „Hab Mut, steh auf!“ 😇

Public History in Action Public History in Action made available in open-access.

Our edited volume "Public History in Action" now available in open-access.

There is an exciting story to be read about a viewing of HBO's "Chernobyl" with podium discussion in R1's repurposed reactor hall at KTH in Stockholm.

#chernobyl #hbo #publichistory

achimklueppelberg.com/2026/04/01/p...

AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

Public transport to be free for Victorians in April as fuel prices climb The Victorian government says public transport will be free across the state in April in a bid to relieve cost-of-living pressure as fuel prices continue to climb.

Meanwhile... in another place called Victoria...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Israeli police block Catholic cardinal from Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday Israeli police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from marking Palm Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre "for the ​first time in centuries," the Patriarchate said, with police citing sec...

Israeli police block Catholic cardinal from Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

📣 Looking forward to welcoming our speakers to Florence for the 5th #SubalternMemories conference!

@achimklueppelberg.bsky.social will present on the legacy of the #Chernobyl disaster, marking its 40th anniversary.

🔗 Discover the full programme and speakers:
europeanmemories.net/activities/s...

On 16 April we will see each other in Florence, at the 5th Subaltern Memories Conference! There, I will give a presentation about the legacy of Chernobyl.

#Chernobyl #envhist #techhist #nuclear

Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of Stavanger Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

❓ How do we remember disasters that don’t always leave visible scars? From #Chernobyl to other catastrophes, #SubalternMemories 2026 looks at how these events are remembered—or forgotten—across Europe.

📆 16 April 📍 @eui-history.bsky.social + 💻 online
ℹ️ 👉 europeanmemories.net/activities/s...

Balcony solar approvals put on fast-track, as UK races to bolster energy independence Amid fresh global conflict, the UK government is rolling out new measures to bolster national energy security, including approving the sale of "plug-in solar."

Balcony solar approvals put on fast-track, as UK races to bolster energy independence reneweconomy.com.au/balcony-sola...

Schade nur, dass sie nicht für die Mehrheit der Deutschen arbeitet, sondern für die Fossilindustrie 🤷

Luftaufnahme des beschädigten Atomkraftwerks Fukushima an der Küste, aus dem Rauch aufsteigt; darüber ein Warnsymbol für Radioaktivität. Text: „15 Jahre Fukushima: Atomenergie ist nicht beherrschbar!“

⚠️ 15 Jahre Fukushima: Die Katastrophe mahnt bis heute.
Drei Kernschmelzen, über 160.000 Evakuierte, radioaktive Verseuchung von Luft, Böden und Wasser — die Folgen sind noch lange nicht überwunden.

Fukushima zeigt: Atomkraft ist viel zu riskant. Wir brauchen den weltweiten Atomausstieg! 🚫☢️

Abfahrt vom Bahnhof Bad Zwischenahn (Bahnhofseingang im Hintergrund), voll bepackt mit tollen Sachen (Koffer, Tasche). Auf dem Weg zum Histocamp (Postkarte in der Hand)

Auf dem Weg zum #histocamp26 in Bonn! Wen treffe ich da? @openhistory.bsky.social #geschichte #barcamp

Workers on a hillside along a road in a forest, scrapping the soil to put into bags

“Not Seeing the Contaminated Forest for the Decontaminated Trees in #Fukushima”

How models of harm from #radiation established after the #nuclear attacks on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki misses many risks faced by people in contaminated environments like Fukushima

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Fukushima at 15: Living with radioactive hot spots and stigma as Japan's government pushes for more reactors Fifteen years later, the lived experience of people resettling the evacuation zone reveals an ongoing disaster at Fukushima—one filled with radioactive hot spots, injustices, and stigma.

🚨 JUST IN: Fifteen years later, the lived experience of people resettling the evacuation zone reveals an ongoing disaster at Fukushima—one filled with radioactive hot spots, injustices, and stigma.

This story was supported by the @pulitzercenter.org.

#Fukushima #nukesky @thebulletin.org

❗️The kamikaze drone that struck the British airbase RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was equipped with Russian military hardware.

The drone contained a Russian-made Kometa-B navigation system, which was first identified in drones intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses in December.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

15 Years After 3/11. Fukushima’s Long Aftermath

You all know that on 11 March 2011, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan suffered a nuclear accident. 15 years later, the decommissioning of the destroyed plant has barely started.

🎉 Das Programm für den Katholikentag in Würzburg ist online!

👉 900 Programmpunkte entdecken: katholikentag.de/programm
📱 Die App „Katholikentag“ ist jetzt in den Stores verfügbar
📚 Das Programmheft erscheint in ca. 3 Wochen

Habt ihr schon Highlights gefunden? 👀
#würzburg #katholikentag2026

In these uncertain times – with energy security, nuclear threat, and climate scepticism at the forefront – SPRU and the @sussexnrggroup.bsky.social feel like ideal places to work right now!

It's been an interesting first month. And many more exciting events and collaborations to look forward to!

So cool that you are there now! Lots of success and great conversations with our friends in Britain!

Und gestern hat meine Lieblingspizzeria auch noch versucht, mir die Pizza in einem Bundeswehrkarton zu verkaufen.