Nuclear Power Plants as Amusement Parks: An Overview
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)
January 2nd, 2007 at 6:21 pm
The nuclear plant was finished in 1985 but never got the permission to go on the grid. At this time the government of the state of North Rhine Westfalia decided inofficially that they would never allow this plant to go on the grid what so ever. In 1991 the German federal goverment followed and buried the fast breeder project for good.
November 1st, 2007 at 6:16 am
Roswell NM wants to build a UFO/Alien Theme part on the west side of town and a nuclear waste recycling plant 40 miles on the east side of twon. What is wrong with ‘this’ picture.