Nuclear

Step inside a Soviet-designed nuclear power plant with RBMK reactors identical to the ones in Chernobyl.

On the outskirts of Pennsylvania’s capital city, a reminder of the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.

A seismograph and a bunker from the Cold War still sit under this university building.

The steep slope known as “Ob Hill” overlooks an Antarctic research station.

The only undammed section of the Columbia River in the United States has been preserved, ironically, by its proximity to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Originally built for nuclear power plant workers, this church sits between apartment buildings.

Starting in 1961, Brookhaven National Labs regularly irradiated a section of forest with a canister of Cesium-137 to study the effects of hard gamma radiation on an ecosystem.

This remote site in the Australian Outback is where the British government conducted atomic bomb tests in the 1950s.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.