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Post by fansfiltration on May 19, 2014 9:27:07 GMT -5
This one is for the weird files fellow hounds. I'm sure some of you knew of this place, but I just found about it by chance when doing a internet search for amusement ride history. The Fast Breeder nuclear reactor SNR-300 was built near the town of Kalkar, Germany (located in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was completed but never taken online. It is known as one of the biggest government spending boondoggles in Germany. SNR-300 was to output 327 megawatts. The project ended up costing about 7 billion Deutsche Mark (about 3.5 billion euros or over 4 billion USD). Klaus Traube, then director of the executing company Interatom, is today one of the most prominent German opponents of the usage of nuclear power. Enter West Germany's Wunderland Kalkar - an incredible adaptive reuse project that transformed a never-used nuclear reactor into an amusement park! The remarkable renovation took a power station in Kalkar and turned it into a park that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. Since 2002, the park has seen the addition of more than 40 rides and a museum as well as a miniature golf course and tennis courts. A spokeswoman at the park said they received some 600,000 visitors a year and employed about 550 people during the high season. She said: 'People come from all over the world because they are completely fascinated by the park. 'It's totally unique and that's what draws people in. It's not something you see every day. 'Some people worry it's unsafe but it is 100 per cent safe. Because the nuclear power station has never been put to use, the whole complex is guaranteed free of radiation.' Source= www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029137/Wunderland-theme-park-built-nuclear-reactor-promises-fun-fuelled-day.html
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Post by tracymay on May 19, 2014 11:03:31 GMT -5
WOW!!!! Thanks for sharing....and welcome to the hound den
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2014 16:51:26 GMT -5
fans, thanks for the cool article...that is wild!
I say let's go there on a Fuku Hounds field trip...ARF!
Be seeing you, Sis hound Barb
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Post by sylviak on May 27, 2014 23:38:08 GMT -5
Cool!
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