Ever Wanted to Take a Ride…Inside a Nuclear Plant?
- Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:27pm by
Liz Klimas
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It‘s a familiar ride if you’re an amusement park or carnival goer. Take a seat. Buckle yourself in and let your feet dangle as you spin and rise and fall.
Well, here’s a Chair-O-Planes ride with a twist. A nuclear twist.
(Photo: Patrik Stollarz via Popular Science)
When you look down past your dangling feet on this ride in Wunderland Kalkar on you’re not only seeing ground 190-feet below you, but you’ll be looking at the innards of a nuclear cooling tower.
Take a virtual spin by watching this video:
Dutch developer Hennie van der Most bought the nuclear plant in 1991, which was never operational, and built it into a theme park, which averages 600,000 patrons a year and has more than 40 attractions, according to Popular Science. Wunderland Kalkar opened in 2005.
(Photo via Amusing Planet)
The plans and construction of the nuclear power plant began in the 1970s, but, according to Amusing Planet, limited resources, safety concerns and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster stopped plans for an active plant completely.
[H/T Popular Science]
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Zachoff
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 1:51pmI wonder if it is powered by solar or wind devices!?!
Report Post »FreedomOne
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:50amto bad they didn’t release the chains with the muslims sitting in them at the top.
Report Post »notreally
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 7:33amNotice in the video the woman wearing a hijab? She’s making a statement to those around her:
I have modesty, you don’t. I have morals, you don’t. I am inferior to men and love it. I am a Muslim woman and have three to five more babies than you do — someday we Muslims will be your masters.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 1:35pmOk…. you are a mind reader… what number am I thinking of?
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 3:15pmRegarding the first statement, it is often true, unfortunately.
Report Post »PROV1X
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:51amchernobyl was not accident people! the decepticons used that place 2 hide things from optimus!
Report Post »ejbonk
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:22pmGermany made a mistake, U.S. Designed Nuclear Plants are the Safest in the World. With Multiple Safe Gaurds and Multiple Redundancies to insure Safe Operations. That said,If this Plant was located in the Former East Germany and of Soviet Design ,they did the right thing not making it operational. The U.S Nuclear Industry has learned it’s lessons from the mistakes of other countries and 3 mile Island. Events like Chernobyl and Japn can Not happen in the U.S. The biggest Problem with U.S. Nuclear Plants are the Operator themselves trying to cut corners and hide things from the Government Agencies that are the Public’s Watch Dog to make sure the Systems in place are Maintained and fully Operational at all times.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:13amThe Kalkar plant was in West Germany. The unified German government did dismantle the plants in East Germany — including those at Greifswald on the Baltic coast. I wouldn’t be too critical of the plants at Greifswald — they were not RBMK (Chernobyl -type) designs. Rather, they were VVER-230 (pressurized water reactors producing 440 MW of electricity). That is a decent design (but only the two VVER’s in Finland have Western level CONTAINMENT structures).
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 6:23pmInterestingly, one of the reasons for TMI (we lived in Harrisburg then; no-one was hurt at all from the accident) was regulation intended for non-nuclear plants. The control room design was also quite poor.
Report Post »Socialism_Is_The_New_Black
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:16pmGermans are responsible for so much innovation and feared they couldn’t safely operate a nuclear power-plant? They cite Chernobyl for the reactor going online. Really?
Report Post »CRAPGIVER
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:25pm@ notreally i am sure that when you face the sun,and look over your shoulder and see your shadow you think is a muslim, you “zionist turd”.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 8:50pmIf that is what you are into, fine…leave me out of it.
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Chuck Stein
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:00pmLooks like a fun ride. Sad waste of a nuke plant to PC foolishness, though.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:08pmagree on both counts.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 8:50pmOn the first, nope (for myself that is).
Report Post »On the second, indeed.
Cat
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:00pmno
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