These pictures are covers of a popular German news magazine from the 1970’s to 1990’s.

1977 ‘Nuclear Power, The Great Illusion’ Clash About Energy-Lack
Nuclear Power was said to be the solution of energy problems in the future, now the highly subsidiesed power plants are’s getting more expensive, unsafe and more fragile. And even worse: promotion of nuclear energy is blocking research for other energy sources.

1979 ‘Nightmare Nuclear Power’ After the catastrophe in Harrisburg
Nuclear Power: The Monster is in us: The almost-catastrophe in the US, the most unlikely happened, shocked the world and raised doubts about growth economy, whose symbol has become nuclear power. The energy-thirsty America hardly had time to think while Europe is rethinking nuclear energy.

1986 “Phase-out From Nuclear Energy”
Continue or change? Chernobyl triggers a new clash about nuclear energy.

1986 “Fear, Fear, Fear” Fleeing from Kiev, Fear of Radiation In Europe.

1979 ’Are We Going To Be A Nuclear State?’
The picture shows the street sign of a place in Germany, Gorleben, where nuclear waste might be stored.

1986 “Murderous Atom” The Worst Case Scenario In The Soviet Union
Radioactive Air over Europe. The Accident in Chernobyl proved that nuclear prophets miscalculated the residual risk.

1988 “The Lie About Nuclear Waste” Unsolved Disposal
Nuclear Waste: “No Country is prepared.” For more than 30 Years industrial societies have expanded nuclear energy. The most important problem has been ignored: Where to store the radioactive waste. So far there are only theories, but no permanent storage depot.

1989 “The Nuclear Defeat” No Power Plant in Wackersdorf
Recycling Nuclear waste in France? Will the concept of national nuclear disposal fail? The Government’s nuclear policy is about to fail.

1990 “Turn It Off” Incident Protocols Of Nuclear Power Plant Greifswald

1976 ‘Fighting Nuclear Waste’ Nuclear Power Plants – Too Fast, Too Much?
Turmoil about nuclear storage in Lower-Sachsony – a wave of resistance is arising against the forced expansion of nuclear energy. The main criticism: the waste issue and change to plutonium technology. America is considering a ‘go-slow’ and criticizes German nuclear technology exports.