Geir Jenssen about N-Plants: Early February 2011: Decided to make an album inspired by the Japanese post-war economic miracle.

The fact that this futuristic-looking plant was situated in such a beautiful spot so close to the sea made me curious.

Further reading revealed that many of these plants are situated in earthquake-prone areas, some of them are even located next to shores that had been hit in the past by tsunamis.

I wanted to make a soundtrack to some of them, concentrating on the architecture, design and localizations, but also questioning the potential radiation danger (a cooling system being destroyed by a landslide or earthquake, etc).

On March 17th I received the following message from a Facebook friend: 'Geir, some time ago you asked people for a photo of a Japanese nuclear powerplant.