Peek into a 320-foot blast crater in the Nevada desert or descend a Titan II missile silo in Arizona for a look at two of many atomic tourism sites around the world that offer history and sometimes lessons from the deadly aftermath of the nuclear age。
The crisis in Japan has boosted interest in nuclear-related museums and plants, once-secret Manhattan Project complexes and areas laid waste by disaster。
Anecdotal evidence suggests that there is a great interest in things nuclear in general, and specifically about the Japanese situation, said Allan Palmer, executive director of the Atomic Testing Museum and Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation in Las Vegas。
Attendance was up 12 percent on a recent weekend at the museum。
At the National Museum of Nuclear Science History in Albuquerque, N.M., attendance jumped about 20 percent on a recent weekend as work continued at the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors after the earthquake and tsunami wiped out power to northern Japan。
Folks definitely want information about nuclear reactors and nuclear radiation, said Jeanette Miller, a spokeswoman for Albuquerque museum。
One of the museums docents, retired physicist Duane Hughes, said inquiring visitors arent jittery but seem confused about reports of the dangers in Japan. The museum hosted a specialist to brief docents on whats going on。
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