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Hartsville Nuclear Plant
Hartsville, Tennessee

Hartsville Nuclear Plant

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.
Specimens in the "wet archive" were known primarily by number.
radioactive

The Saga of Midori Naka

How and why the harvested body parts of atomic bomb victims spent decades abroad before being returned to Hiroshima.
Colin Dickey September 24, 2020
The monolithic Space Age entities are for sale, and surrounded by two stretches of fencing.
cold war

For Sale: A Cold War Bunker and Missile Silo in North Dakota

“It’s the ultimate in social distancing.”
Isaac Schultz August 4, 2020
Remains of the atom smasher.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Westinghouse Atom Smasher

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.
Remaining two radar towers and roll-top observatory. (2020)
Great Falls, Virginia

Great Falls Nike Fire Control Site W-83

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.
The mother taking Twitter away from her son.
Tokyo, Japan

Heiwa no Chikai (Oath of Peace)

A statue meant to celebrate peace has also been interpreted as a mother taking away her son's internet privileges.
Japan's charismatic raccoon dogs are back in business. Only wild boars are appearing in greater numbers.
radioactive

9 Years Later, Furry Friends—and Foes—Are Returning to Fukushima

Few of them seem to miss the missing humans.
Isaac Schultz January 21, 2020
Alice Miceli, <em>Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, PTT-8 Sign, Highly Contaminated Ground, Belarus</em>, 2008
disasters

The Photographer Who X-Rayed Chernobyl

How to make the invisible visible.
Winnie Lee December 4, 2019
Deep in a forest in western Poland, is an abandoned Soviet bunker with an unusual ant situation.
bunkers

The Saga of the Cannibal Ants in a Soviet Nuclear Bunker

And how scientists tried to free this formic Donner Party.
Sabrina Imbler November 20, 2019
Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant
Shoreham, New York

Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant

The first commercial nuclear power plant constructed on Long Island.
816 Underground Nuclear Plant.
Fuling, China

816 Underground Nuclear Plant

This top secret Chinese military megaproject is the world’s largest human-made tunnel structure.
Cheyenne, Wyoming

Quebec 01 Missile Alert Facility

The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.
Museum Uranbergbau exterior.
Bad Schlema, Germany

Museum Uranbergbau

Learn the incredible story of how an unassuming spa town was transformed into one of the world’s largest uranium mining sites.
The Chernobyl Spirits Company has produced one lone bottle of the non-radioactive spirit.
disasters

Scientists Distilled Moonshine With Rye Grown in Chernobyl's Dead Zone

The local grain tested positive for radioactivity.
Luke Fater August 12, 2019
Chornobyl, Ukraine

'Monument of the Third Angel'

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.
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View from Richter’s Office.
Argentina

Huemul Island

The island houses the ruins of a secret nuclear fusion lab that once employed high-profile Nazi scientists
Prypiat, Ukraine

Canteen 19

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.
The 1957 Stokes test, of a 19-kiloton weapon, in Nevada.
radioactive

Deep in the Ocean’s Trenches, The Legacy of Nuclear Testing Lives

The discovery of "bomb carbon" miles below the surface shows how deep human impact goes.
Jonathan Carey May 14, 2019