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[architectureofdoom]

Storage of nuclear waste, Dessel

[historicaltimes]

A Canadian C-130 crew with radiation detecting equipment prepares to search the Canadian North for wreckage from Kosmos 954, Operation Morning Light, 1978. Radioactive material from the event has been found as recently as 2012.

via reddit

[rdspicnic]

Lemóniz (U)NPP

[rdspicnic]

Lemóniz unfinished NPP.

[danismm]

Atomic Energy Town

[findlight]

August, 1945. A billboard at Oak Ridge Facility in Tennessee warns people to keep silent about anything they see or hear there. Oak Ridge was a town built in 1942 to house workers and the laboratory that developed the Manhattan Project – the secret second world war program that built the atomic bomb. [G]

[furtho]

Soviet-era control room (via here)

[straker1980]

The control center of the Metsamor nuclear power plant in Armenia. Photo by Martyn Shahbazyan/TASS.

[furtho]

Mário Novais’s photograph of equipment at the Nuclear Power Board, Portugal (via here) 

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[evilbuildingsblog]

Definitely no Bond Villains here - Torness Nuclear Power Station, Scotland.

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

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[karman4e]

[furtho]

Postcard of the nuclear power station at Fessenheim, Alsace (via here)

[atomic-flash]

An illustrative sculpture at a Union Carbide exhibit promoting atomic power, January 1955.  (Three Lions/Getty Images)

[sovietpostcards]

Nuclear Physics Institute in Novosibirsk, Russia (1974)

[sovtime]

Институт ядерной физики в Новосибирске. РСФСР. СССР. 1974 год.

[unearthedviews]

GB. England. Kent, Dungeness A. The Magnox Nuclear Power Station on the coast of Kent, Dungeness.  Control dials inside the Main Control Room, monitor one of the two reactors. The station closed in December 2005 and will be decommissioned over the next few years. 2005  © Peter Marlow/Magnum Photos