US$ 5.9 billion:"a poor man's Disneyland."

Turning a Nuclear White Elephant into a Funfair

By Jörg Diehl in Klakar, Germany

AFP

In the early 1970s, construction began in Germany on what was supposed to be the world's most technologically advanced nuclear power plant. But public protests and nuclear disasters elsewhere kept the plant from ever going online -- and then a Dutch developer with a dream arrived on the scene.