Visitors Enjoy a Nuclear Amusement Park in Germany

I pulled up on the internet a lot of images of this park. It appears to be similar to your average SIX Flags amusement park in USA. I think after the entire day of a family enjoying themselves at Wunderland Kalkar Park, they will leave with a GLOW of enjoyment following them, where ever they go there after. ;)

deja vu.
re-run article?

why learn from your own mistakes, when you could learn from the mistakes of others?

Never became fully operational........ But did it ever, at any point fire up and create a nuclear reaction of any kind? I would hope not seeing as how people are visiting this place as an amusement park. I would go and ride the rides, in MOP 4.

@Army Juggernaut: I don't think the nuclear reactors were loaded, or started for that matter, at any time. One would imagine, that the site would be more or less off-limits to the general public in such a case, decomissioned or not.

However, a cooling tower would not be a significantly more radioactive environment than your average playground, even if the plant had been in active use.

i'm with quintus, people are scared about the radio activity levels rising around nuclear power plants, really, the reactor doesn't just start spewing radiation into the surroundings, it's more likely to be from improper handling and disposal of the cooling water.

really i think that we as a nation need to get over our collective stigma about nuclear energy and build a few better plants. or upgrade the ones we have. Germany's already done it, do i have to evoke Godwin's law to prove my point?

to mars or bust!

I agree whole heartedly. I'm quite tired of the entire country, after being fired up by the media, running scared from anything with the term radioactive or nuclear on it. But then again, I heard people from my own company exclaim that they didn't know Japan was an island after the tsunami news broke... and my company makes medical devices and implants. So, maybe I expect too much.

My only problem with nuclear power is the MASSIVE amount of waste not only in the by-product but in the destructive mining of the uranium. Often leaving environmentally dangerous tailings which eventually leak out (even when controls put in place) and cause surrounding soil and watersheds to be write off's.

Additional to this is the FACT that MANY other renewable and safe options exist, and often at less resource cost. Unfortunately often these alternatives can have a inverse financial cost to set-up, even thought the tech and materials are in essence more efficient to accumulate,.

Personally, I think nuclear technology has its place, just don't think powering the global domestic world is it. The end result will be more waste, and we be throwing away the chance to setup a almost %100 clean renewable energy for future generations.

heck, next year im scheduled to go on a tour of chernobyl .. this is nothing but a nuclear themed theme park.

i'm going to an actual radioactive park :)

cheers, eh