· Atlas Obscura
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Black Hole of Los Alamos is permanently closed.
This entry remains in the Atlas as a record of its history, but it is no longer accessible to visitors.
The Black Hole front entrance
An aisle. This is the trailer of some of Ed’s favorite stuff that isn’t for sale. Awesome items include a can of U.S. Gov’t Emergeny Drinking Water, nixie tubes, and an electron microscope. Ask to go into this trailer.
One of the thousands of piles of stuff
The Black Hole sells surplus equipment acquired from the Los Alamos National Laboratories.
They sell everything from 1950's era oscilloscopes to liquid nitrogen dewars, from dials, knobs & calculators to A-bomb detonator cables. It is a museum of nuclear research where everything is for sale.
Update March, 2017: This business is no longer in operation.
August 26, 2011
Visaginas, Lithuania
Step inside a Soviet-designed nuclear power plant with RBMK reactors identical to the ones in Chernobyl.
Middletown, Pennsylvania
On the outskirts of Pennsylvania’s capital city, a reminder of the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
The steep slope known as “Ob Hill” overlooks an Antarctic research station.
Helen, Washington
The only undammed section of the Columbia River in the United States has been preserved, ironically, by its proximity to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
