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The USSR-built Plokštinė Missile Base once housed nuclear missiles aimed at Western Europe. Abandoned in the late 1970s, it’s now a museum where visitors enter an underground time capsule to see the ...
It is able to store 1,500 megawatt-hours of energy by compressing air into a massive abandoned underground salt mine in Yingcheng City, Hubei. When needed, the compressed air is released to spin ...
Construction began in 1959 on the $8 million remote facility, located about 150 miles away from Thule Air Base, a key Arctic defense outpost and the US' northernmost active military base; it is ...
The plant was closed in 1969, leaving the rocket behind. Photographer Naaman Fletcher, who blogs at What's Left of Birmingham, visited the abandoned facility in April 2010. Here's what remains.
Dave Hoffman of West Virginia University's Water Research Institute holds up a vial of light rare earth oxides at a facility that separates them from acidic groundwater draining from an abandoned ...
This is the entry to the underground that leads to Iron Mountain's facility where the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency now houses its data center. PHEAA is one of thousands of Iron ...
Built in an abandoned World War II air raid shelter, the unusual facility instead produces “micro greens”– herbs and salad veggies destined for the city’s restaurants.
This video documents a magnet fishing activity conducted within the grounds of a decommissioned prison. We examine the site's ...
Community News Berea gets $60,000 for underground gas tank removal on vacant Front Street site Updated: Nov. 08, 2024, 12:39 p.m. | Published: Nov. 08, 2024, 12:36 p.m.
The facility faced overcrowding with seven physicians to as many as 2,000 patients in 1946. It housed as many as 2,791 people in the mid-1960s, which is 900 people more than administrators thought ...