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The decline of a nuclear city – haunting photos of abandonment – (the nuclear future?)

Haunting photos of Idaho’s Atomic City, 30 years after nuclear disaster drove everyone away http://www.techinsider.io/the-atomic-city-nuclear-disaster-30-years-later-2016-3 Tech Insider Chris Weller 11 Mar 16 When photographer David Hanson arrived in Atomic City, Idaho in 1986, he knew he was capturing a still-cooling piece of American history.

While the Mountain West boomtown spent the early 1950s thriving on the power generated at the nearby nuclear complex, within a few years a string of nuclear meltdowns had sent the town’s residents searching for safer dwellings. Atomic City — current population: 29 — was left to become a shell of its former self.

Thirty years later, Hanson has finally released his haunting photographs in a book called“Wilderness to Wasteland.”

Here, he walks us through what he saw………

“It seems frightening yet somehow appropriate that the most enduring monuments America will leave for future generations will be the hazardous remains of our industry and technology,” he said.

March 11, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | resources - print