Nuclear Power Plants as Amusement Parks: An Overview
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
After the 1979 partial meltdown at Three-mile Island in Pennsylvania, Disney theme park designer Art Riley jokingly proposed repurposing the site as an amusement park – seen here in this concept art found recently on Ebay. Good news: meltdown was contained. Bad news: fun park wasn’t built. But…
Years later, for reasons I’m too lazy to research, a German power company abandoned their nuclear plant before its completion – and someone over there thought giant cooling towers could make a cool fun park too – and this time they build it. Kernie’s Familienpark, is what it’s called, but they painted the tower with a mountain scene instead of a big smiley face with a bow-tie – and inside is just a rock climbing wall. Not a single attraction celebrating the atom.

(Thanks to Jordan for the Ebay tip)








