Where a crown jewel once stood in NASA’s ambitious plans for human space exploration now lies a decontaminated nuclear grave: the 1960s-era Plum Brook Reactor Facility in Sandusky, Ohio.
PR officials and scientists at NASA Glenn Research Center granted me the unusual opportunity to tour the grounds—and they let me bring in my camera.
The photo gallery I created for Wired.com, titled “Tour the Tomb of NASA’s First and Last Nuclear Reactor,” documents the entrails of the hollowed-out facility only weeks before demolition crews tore it down and buried it.