This entry remains in the Atlas as a record of its history, but it is no longer accessible to visitors.
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
Middletown, Pennsylvania
On the outskirts of Pennsylvania’s capital city, a reminder of the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.
Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
A seismograph and a bunker from the Cold War still sit under this university building.
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.
Visaginas, Lithuania
Originally built for nuclear power plant workers, this church sits between apartment buildings.
Upton, New York
Starting in 1961, Brookhaven National Labs regularly irradiated a section of forest with a canister of Cesium-137 to study the effects of hard gamma radiation on an ecosystem.
Maralinga Tjarutja, Australia
This remote site in the Australian Outback is where the British government conducted atomic bomb tests in the 1950s.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.
