Atomic tourism

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Atomic tourism is a relatively new style of tourism in which the tourists travel to significant sites in atomic history.^{[citation needed]} These sites are typically those involved with either atomic explosions or the vehicles (planes, missiles and rockets) that transport them.

1 Atomic museums
2 Explosion sites
3 Atomic accidents
4 External links

[edit] Atomic museums

Tinian Airfield, launch site for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan during World War II
Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona, public underground missile museum
Nike Missile Site SF-88L, near San Francisco, CA, fully restored Nike missile complex
Los Alamos County Historical Museum, Los Alamos, New Mexico, items from the Manhattan Project
Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM, history of the Manhattan Project
National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuquerque, New Mexico, many missiles and rockets. This used to be the National Atomic Museum at Kirtland AFB and it has a B52 on exhibit.
National Museum of the United States Air Force, The Nagasaki airplane (Bockscar) as well as many nuclear missiles
Nevada Desert Experience, Las Vegas, Nevada, anti-nuclear resistance to Nuclear Testing at the Nevada Test Site
Oak Ridge Graphite Reactor, first to make Plutonium
American Museum of Science and Energy, bomb casings on display
Greenbrier Bunker, underground bunker for Congress
Savannah River Site, site where Plutonium 239 and Tritium were made
Experimental Breeder Reactor I, engines for atomic powered airplanes
National Air and Space Museum, Enola Gay, Washington DC, The Hiroshima airplane
White Sands Missile Range, Central New Mexico, missiles on display
Pacific Proving Grounds, South Pacific, site of many atomic and nuclear tests from 1948-1963
Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada
EBR-1, Arco, Idaho, which was the first nuclear reactor to produce electrical power, the first breeder reactor, and the first to use plutonium as fuel.
George Herbert Jones Laboratory, which was where plutonium was first isolated and characterized

[edit] Explosion sites

Trinity Site, Alamogordo, NM, site of 1st atomic bomb explosion July 16, 1945
Nevada Test Site, Nye County, NV, Land of a Thousand Nuclear Tests
Bikini Atoll, South Pacific, many atomic sites now available by SCUBA
Project GASBUGGY, Carson National Forest, Rio Arriba County, NM, Atoms for Peace
Project GNOME, Carlsbad, NM, underground atomic test site
Hiroshima, Japan, first wartime use of an atomic bomb
Nagasaki, Japan, last wartime use of an atomic bomb
Maralinga, Australia, site used for Operation Buffalo and Operation Antler in the 1950s.

[edit] Atomic accidents

Chernobyl disaster The "Chernobyl disaster", or reactor accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is the worst nuclear power plant accident in history and the only instance so far of level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale, resulting in a severe nuclear meltdown.

Three Mile Island was the site of a well publicized accident, the most significant in the history of American commercial nuclear power.

Windscale fire On October 10, 1957, the graphite core of a British nuclear reactor at Windscale, Cumbria, caught fire, releasing substantial amounts of radioactive contamination into the surrounding area. The event, known as the Windscale fire, was considered the world's worst reactor accident until the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. Both incidents were dwarfed by the magnitude of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire