Open AccessKärnkraftverk som minnesplatser
Author(s) -
Anna Storm
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
nordisk museologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2002-0503
pISSN - 1103-8152
DOI - 10.5617/nm.3164
Subject(s) - nuclear power , exhibition , perspective (graphical) , nuclear power plant , nuclear plant , nuclear weapon , history , radioactive waste , cultural heritage , power (physics) , climate change , environmental ethics , political science , archaeology , law , engineering , nuclear engineering , art , geology , visual arts , philosophy , waste management , physics , nuclear physics , oceanography , quantum mechanics
Is it possible to imagine a nuclear power plant as a memory site? In many respects, the answer is yes. Nuclear power already forms a part of cultural history museum exhibitions and closed-down nuclear plants have been documented and analysed from a heritage perspective. However, they are also highly controversial places for remembering the past, since their significance is exceptionally ambiguous. The plants stand for potential catastrophe, the complicated management of the radioactive waste and are often associated with nuclear weapons but – at the same time – they also imply hope in the future and a possible answer to the climate threat. Are closed-down nuclear power plants to be preserved in some way, and in that case why? And is our understanding of the concept of heritage to change in some respects as a consequence of this?