In the liner notes of the Kiss mix album Kiss House Nation 2001, Mixmag music editor Matthew Kershaw named the song among 2000's "uncategorisable" club tracks, noting it "was championed everywhere from children's television to the most underground techno clubs. Select gave the single a review noting its widespread popularity stating that it was "as welcome in Pacha as in the Munich underpass, Tongo and Coxo like this Teutonic techno," as well as noting it was "Not bad for a couple of DJs called Splank and Mooner". The video was produced and directed by Hendrik Hölzemann, Grischa Schmitz and Dominique Schuchman who at that time were studying film at the Filmacademy Ludwigsburg, under the name Panic Pictures. As the camera pulls away, both women are seen running towards the host while the video production staff are seen wearing hazmat suits. Finally, the host sits on a couch in the studio, off camera, where he examines a standard vibrator and a Kernkraft 400™ version. Mindy reveals a sunburnt tan, while Cindy has a perfect sun tan which has even worked under her beachwear. Mindy then gets into a standard tanning bed, while Cindy waits before getting into a Kernkraft 400™. One model puts a plate of food into a trademarked Kernkraft 400™ microwave oven, which cooks the food much faster and hotter than the other model's conventional microwave oven. The music video of "Kernkraft 400" starts out inside a nuclear power plant room where an infomercial host (Florian Senfter) dressed in '70s disco clothing comes out and later two models (Cindy and Mindy) come onto scene dancing. The single was released in the United Kingdom on 18 September 2000 by Data Records. "Kernkraft 400" was released in Germany by Gigolo Records in 1999. The song, which is sometimes mislabeled as "Zombie Nation" (as the artist's name can be heard in the otherwise instrumental track), is commonly used as a sports chant at sport stadiums (such as in American football, Association football, baseball, basketball, and hockey) all over the world and was ranked number eight by Sports Illustrated in their list of "Top 10 Stadium Anthems". Though permission for the sampling was not initially granted, Whittaker was paid an undisclosed sum from Zombie Nation. In September, the song debuted and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, remaining there for two weeks, and has received a gold certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales and streams of at least 400,000 units. A remix of the SID track "Star Dust" by David Whittaker, from his 1984 Commodore 64 game Lazy Jones, it peaked at number 22 in Germany in February 2000 while becoming a top-10 hit in the Netherlands and Belgium's Flanders region a few months later. " Kernkraft 400" ( English: Nuclear Power 400) is a song performed by German techno artist Zombie Nation and the first single from their 1999 debut album Leichenschmaus.
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