Nuclear Plant © Paul J Everett
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Sorry kiddos this is no Disneyland. The Wunderland Kalkar Amusement Park and Convention Center in Kalkar, Germany is built on a former nuclear power plant site.
Matador writes,
“The SNR-300 site was sold in 1995 to a Dutch businessman after public outcry over Chernobyl and other high-profile nuclear catastrophes shut the project down. The formerly abandoned space in Kalkar, Germany was transformed into Wunderland Kalkar: an amusement park and convention center, complete with a 400-bed hotel, a roller coaster, and a suspiciously Disney-esque flying elephant ride.”
The “Disney-esque flying elephant ride” is located smack in the middle of the nuclear reactor’s cooling tower. I bet Walt Disney is rolling over in his (allegedly) cryogenically frozen grave.
Read more at Matador.