Munich – The two 160 meter high cooling towers of the former German nuclear power plant Gundremmingen (state of Bavaria) were blown up almost four years after the nuclear reactor was decommissioned. At exactly 12 o’clock sharp, the colossuses, consisting of a total of 56,000 tons of reinforced concrete, collapsed. Thousands of onlookers, particularly from Bavaria and nearby Baden-Württemberg, watched the spectacular destruction of a symbol of the atomic age.
