“I don’t see it as disaster tourism, but a way to understand the dangers of nuclear weapons,” says nuclear anthropologist NuclearAnthro ☢️ KasiaLDelgado speaks with the holidaymakers who spend their annual leave in nuclear wastelands
Kasia is Chief Features Writer for The i Paper. She was previously a commissioning editor and writer at Radio Times.When Ryan Richards plans his summer holidays with his wife and daughter, he’s not looking for great deals on sun, sea and sangria. Instead, the 49-year-old comic book artist works out the best way to travel to nuclear test sites. Richards’ favourite holiday spot, one he’s been going to for the last 30 years, is Atomic City, Idaho.
“It’s a ghost town,” says Richards, from Minneapolis 1,266 miles away, who is unusual in that he actively wants to visit the wasteland locals fled 60 years ago. Atomic City – once called Midway – has been deemed safe in terms of radiation, but it’s fair to say it’s not your average holiday hotspot. The bar there is also the petrol station and the post office. “I find it fascinating to be there,” says Richards.
Inside, Richards year after year inspects the four nuclear reactors, including two aircraft nuclear propulsion prototypes, a reactor control room, remote handling devices for radioactive materials and radiation detection equipment. “The labs are tiny little structures in a wind ripped land,” says Richards. “You always feel as if you are being watched, because you’re standing at the site of what was one of the most secret projects on Earth.
But Richards’ wife will not be accompanying him in future, as she’s asked for a divorce. When Richards embarks on his Nevada trip, he can take one of the free bus tours offered by the Nevada National Security Site three times a month. Tourists are driven into the Nevada desert test site – 65 miles away from Las Vegas – to see the Sedan Crater, created in 1962 by the below-ground explosion of a 104-kiloton hydrogen bomb.
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