"Insgesamt werde die Atomstromproduktion 2025 einen Umfang von rund 2900 Terawattstunden erreichen, prognostiziert die IEA. Dies bedeute einen Anteil von knapp zehn Prozent an der gesamten Stromproduktion. Im Jahr 2023 hatten Atommeiler der Energieagentur zufolge noch 2742 Terawattstunden erzeugt und 2024 nach vorläufigen Zahlen 2843.

In diesem Jahr werde die Produktion von Atomstrom "die höchste in der Geschichte sein", sagte IEA-Chef Fatih Birol der Nachrichtenagentur AFP. "Wir treten in eine neue Ära der Kernenergie ein."

Weltweit seien Reaktoren mit Kapazitäten in Höhe von 70 Gigawatt im Bau. Das Interesse an Atomkraft sei so groß wie seit der Ölkrise in den 1970er-Jahren nicht mehr. Über 40 Länder strebten nach einem Ausbau der Kernenergie, teilte die IEA mit. Zum Anstieg des Elektrizitätsbedarfs komme es nicht nur in klassischen Sektoren wie der Industrie, sondern auch in neuen Bereichen wie dem Betrieb von Elektroautos und Datenzentren.

Nachdem sich die Atomkraft nach dem GAU 2011 im japanischen Reaktorkomplex Fukushima international noch auf dem Rückzug befunden hatte, wird die aktuelle Entwicklung insbesondere von China angeführt. Von den 52 Reaktoren, mit deren Bau seit 2017 weltweit begonnen wurde, sind 25 chinesische Konstruktionen. (...)

Link: https://www.dw.com/de/internationale-energieagentur-sieht-comeback-der-atomkraft/a-71313581 (dw, 16. Januar 2025)

"As an experimental trial, we are starting a study tour into Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) once every month, aiming to develop a new opportunity for international people to learn about the real site of the disaster and ongoing decommissioning process. This is a very special offer from us; please join us to see what’s going on there with your own eyes. Your accumulated radiation dose would be 10-20 micro Sievert which is equivalent to two dental X rays. A round-trip flight between New York and Tokyo, for example, would be 110-160 micro Sievert due to the high radiation from outer space by comparison. The power plant is large and more than 90% of the entire site including office and facility buildings plus water tank areas has been decontaminated. Around 2-4000 people are working there everyday. On the other hand, the reactor site of Units 1- 4 by the shore, where the hydrogen explosions and melting down occurred in 2011 after the tsunami hit and the reactors lost their entire power and then cooling water, has much higher radiation and almost of all your dose is from this site when we get closer by bus. 

After FDNPS, our Real Fukushima team will take you to look around the outside of the plant as much as possible to see the current status of the evacuated areas as well as the reopened former evacuated ones where people are slowly getting back, the on-going revitalisation efforts and the tsunami site so that you can feel the real vibrance of this region. This will be for 3 hours and this will be a short version of our Standard Tour. We ask everyone to show the utmost respect to the area and the people who have suffered from the disaster."

Link: https://real-fukushima.com/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-power-plant-tour-2022/

"Zwei eindrucksvolle Erzählungen aus dem Leben der Wanderarbeiter in einem japanischen Atomkraftwerk bilden den Auftakt zu diesem Manga. Mehr als zwanzig Jahre vor der Nuklearkatastrophe in Fukushima 2011 nutzte Susumu Katsumata, der selbst Kernphysik studiert hatte, das Medium, um auf die Gefahren der Atomkraft und die prekären Bedingungen aufmerksam zu machen, unter denen in Japan Atomkraftwerke instand gehalten werden."

Links: https://reprodukt.com/products/teufelsfisch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susumu_Katsumata_(manga_artist)
https://www.reddition.de/blog/frisch-gelesen-archiv/reprodukt/fg-377-teufelsfisch-susumu-katsumata-reprodukt
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/fukushima-atomkatastrophe-im-auge-des-mangas-100.html

"The Atom Suit continues the thread of Yanobe’s earlier works—the complex robotized machines and suits designed to protect their hosts from environmental hazards. Scholars often refer to these artworks as “survival vehicles,” “survival devices,” or “survival gear.” Because the artist created them for gallery exhibitions, their preoccupation with survival was understood merely as an art theme, a play of “near autistic imagination” that either distracts from the world’s challenges or indulges in an apocalyptic delusion. This attitude also carries over to the Atom Suit Project. Even though it was staged not in a gallery but at a nuclear disaster site, scholars still consider the project’s inclinations toward survival as imaginary or symbolic"

Nazar Kozak: "Kenji Yanobe, Atom Suit, and Chornobyl: Enacting Survival After Nuclear Disaster". In: Afterimage (2023) 50 (3): 55–80. (University of California Press)

https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2023.50.3.55

Links: https://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article/50/3/55/197197/Kenji-Yanobe-Atom-Suit-and-ChornobylEnacting
https://yanobe.com/en_works/1748

Atom Suit Project: Tanks, Chernobyl (1997) by Kenji Yanobe; © Kenji Yanobe, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art collection; courtesy the artist; photograph by Russell Liebman.

"The traveling exhibition from Princeton University, “Shadows and Ashes: The Peril of Nuclear Weapons,” investigates the consequences of nuclear weapons in the technical and emotive senses. This exhibit of art and science examines the role of nuclear weapons in our society and reflects on their results. By combining artwork and scientific information, it opens conversations on the practical and the philosophical implications of humans’ continued efforts to create and to dismantle nuclear weapons."

Links:

https://cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/system/resources/attachments/3/d/5/original-f277bc48cddb86efd9164f18a6119a3dfe4ff256.pdf

https://spia.princeton.edu/events/shadows-and-ashes-peril-nuclear-weapons

https://einaudi.cornell.edu/programs/reppy-institute-peace-and-conflict-studies/events/paths-peace