A Survey of the World's Radioactive No-Go Zones

[The QUEEN]

[glow=red,2,300]Everyone knows about Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and, now, Fukushima. But what about Semipalatinsk, Palomares and Kyshtym? The world is full of nuclear disaster zones -- showing just how dangerous the technology really is.[/glow]

The Soviet nuclear testing site in present-day Kazakhstan is just one of many places in the world that remain dangerously radioactive to this day.
[img]http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-199302-galleryV9-fzes.jpg[/img]

2: A New Age Dawns
On Jul. 16, 1945, at 05:29:45 local time, the atomic era began as the first ever nuclear bomb, called "The Gadget", was detonated at the White Sands missile testing grounds in New Mexico. A similar device exploded over Nagasaki just a few weeks later. Beforehand, some of those involved in the test expressed fears that the explosion might ignite the atmosphere and destroy all life on the planet -- or completely incinerate New Mexico. But despite these concerns, the 18 kiloton bomb was detonated, creating a twelve-kilometer high mushroom cloud and a blasstt heard 320 kilometers away. Sand at the site of the explosion turned into green, radioactive glass -- also called Trinitit.
[img width=850 height=677]http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-199694-galleryV9-kkqw.jpg[/img]

3: 'Now I Am Become Death'
The scientific director of the project, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, said later the explosion had reminded him of a line from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." In 1952, the bomb crater was filled in and most of the Trinitit removed. More than 60 years after the "Trinity" test, radiation at the site is still 10 times higher than normal. The site was declared a historic monument in 1965 and can be visited -- but only on two days a year.
[img width=850 height=846]http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-199710-galleryV9-vhcr.jpg[/img]

4: Uninhabitable to This Day
The worst nuclear accident the world has so far seen occurred on Apr. 26, 1986 at the Chernoybl power plant near the town of Pripyat, in what was then the USSR (now Ukraine). The testing of a new voltage regulator led to an explosion in reactor 4 which destroyed the roof, exposing the melting core and hurling radiation into the air.
[img width=850 height=570]http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-199705-galleryV9-nszn.jpg[/img]

5: The Radioactive Dilemma
Above ground, Germany has not yet suffered a nuclear disaster, despite numerous incidents in German nuclear power plants. Underground, however, is a different story: Electricity has been produced from nuclear fission in Germany for more than 60 years -- but there is no final repository for the resulting waste. Since the 1960s, much of the waste has ended up at the Asse storage facility (pictured), a salt mine which was to protect the radioactive garbage for the next 100,000 years.
[img width=850 height=505]http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-199702-galleryV9-tbcw.jpg[/img]


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