Wunderland Kalkar is an amusement park in Kalkar, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is built on the former site of SNR-300,[1] a nuclear power plant that never went online because of construction problems and protests. The park was constructed by Dutch entrepreneur Hennie van der Most, who purchased the site for a rumored price of US$3 million. Wunderland Kalkar receives around 600,000 visitors each year.[2]
Many of the facilities constructed for the plant have been integrated into the park and its attractions, including the cooling tower, which features a swing ride and a climbing wall. The park also features four restaurants, eight bars, and six hotels.
- ^ Courtney Verrill (5 April 2016). "This failed $5.3 billion nuclear power plant in Germany is now an amusement park that gets hundreds of thousands of visitors each year". Business Insider. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ^ Fillippi, Sarah (Jan 2012), "Swing Till You Puke—Inside a Nuclear Cooling Tower", Wired, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 26–27