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Picture of the Day

Posted in Random » POTD 9 Dec 2011   / 2386 views

Nuclear explosion was captured by rapatronic camera less than one millisecond after detonation.

 

Picture of the Day

Devastating Nuclear Explosion Pictures (31 pics)

Posted in Random » Weird 27 Jul 2011   / 6108 views

Unbelievably there have been numerous nuclear explosion tests throughout the world, and most of them were photographed. These giant mushroom clouds seemingly rise to the heavens in a beautiful tower of smoke.

 

Devastating Nuclear Explosion Pictures

Disturbing Images From the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (40 pics)

Posted in Random » Weird 23 Apr 2011   / 5914 views

Brave men are still working on the besieged Japanese power plant, and these pictures illustrate how much of a disaster the earthquake caused. Mother nature can be a sweet being sometimes, but a bitch other times.

 

Disturbing Images From the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear Power Plant Oh Wait, It's a Nightclub (5 pics)

Posted in Funny » Fail 16 Mar 2011   / 4986 views

Fox News mistakenly takes a nightclub for a nuclear power plant on the map. What is interesting is that the name of Shibuyaeggman they put doesn’t exist. The nightclub is called Eggman and it is situated in the Tokyo district of Shibuya.

 

You'll also see some other map fails by CNN after the jump.

 

Nuclear Power Plant Oh Wait, It

Explosion at Nuclear Power Plant in Japan (48 pics + 1 video)

Posted in Pictures 12 Mar 2011   / 13835 views

After the devastating earthquake and tsunami, which followed afterwards, a huge blast was observed at the Fukushima-Daiichi atomic power plant that caused the radiation leak.

After the earthquake hit Japan, in several of the reactors at the two Fukushima plants the cooling systems failed and “without cooling, the temperature in the reactor core builds, with the risk that it could melt through its container into the building housing the system.” It also causes pressure in the containers where the reactor is situated.

The Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan declared that the amount of radiation released was "tiny." We sure hope so… but could this be another Chernobyl??

After the jump, you’ll also see the most recent photos of the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on Friday.

 

Explosion at Nuclear Power Plant in Japan

Wintertime at a Nuclear Disaster Site (30 pics)

Posted in Pictures 20 Jan 2011   / 7564 views

Welcome to Prypiat, the home of the largest nuclear disaster in history, in the wintertime. Prypiat was founded in 1970 to house the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers. 
It is obviously closed now and is very spooky looking. It is amazing that there are still trees and plants that still grow there.

Wintertime at a Nuclear Disaster Site

The Power and Violence of the Atomic Bomb in Pictures (22 pics)

Posted in Pictures 27 Sep 2010   / 9290 views

These pictures are taken from "How to Photograph an Atomic Bomb" book by Peter Kuran.

As you already know it, if you didn’t skip history classes, hundreds of nuclear bombs were detonated in the United States between 1945 and 1962.

Due to the violence and dangerousness of those bombs, it was no easy task to take photographs of the explosions and yet there were photographs crazy enough to capture them.

 

The Power and Violence of the Atomic Bomb in Pictures (22 pics)

Visiting a Secret Nuclear Bunker in Yugoslavia (48 pics)

Posted in Pictures 16 Jul 2010   / 13678 views

This nuclear bunker is named after Marshal Tito. It was built in the ‘70s in Yugoslavia. For many years, this place was a total secret to everybody but a few people. Only in 1992 this bunker was revealed to publicity after Bosnia separated from Yugoslavia and invaded it.

Tito bunker is about 70,000 square feet, there are over 100 bedrooms, offices and conference rooms here. The furniture is wooden and looks neat.

This place can serve its purpose even today, if restocked with supplies. It can allow up to 350 people live inside for 6 months without ever coming outside.

 

Visiting a Secret Nuclear Bunker in Yugoslavia (48 pics)

Abandoned Russian nuclear polar lighthouses

Posted in Pictures 8 Jan 2009   / 6686 views
This is a very ineteresting material to read, even if it is quite long. It comes from Englishrussia site and really worth reading.
During the Soviet Union era, to guide their cargo ships through the dark polar night across the Russian Northern coastline which is situated inside the Polar Circle, the Soviets decided to build a chain of lighthouses. To make them fully autonomous, because they were situated hundreds and hundreds miles aways from any populated areas, Soviet engineers decided to implement atomic energy to power up those structures. So, special lightweight small atomic reactors were produced in limited series to be delivered to the Polar Circle lands and to be installed on the lighthouses. Those small reactors could work in the independent mode for years and didn’t require any human interference, so it was very handy in the situation like this.
Then, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unattended automatic lighthouses did it job for some time, but after some time they collapsed too. Mostly as a result of the hunt for the metals like copper and other stuff which were performed by the looters. They didn’t care or maybe even didn’t know the meaning of the “Radioactive Danger” sign and ignored them, breaking in and destroying the equipment. It sounds creepy but they broke into the reactors too causing all the structures to become radioactively polluted.

Abandoned Russian nuclear polar lighthouses


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