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We have published several videos about buildings being demolished, yes we are fans of this kind of videos, today we present a colossal demolition, so potentially dangerous that members of the public were not allowed near the scene. On May 24, South Carolina´s K Cooling Tower became the second largest of its kind to be consiged to oblivion by a controlled demolition, this demolition required more than one thousand pounds of explosive. The demolition was funded by the ARRA(= and was part of a project to reduce the ecological footprint of the site. The pictures do only little justice to the huge size of K Cooling Tower – it was 450 feet tall and 345 wide.

The tower was built in 1992 and its function was to support nuclear production at the K Reactor at the SRS.  Ironically, 1991 – the year before it was built – is now widely regarded as the year the Cold War ended and so there wasn’t much use for the new reactor or tower.  All the motorized equipment and control rooms were removed in 2003 and the unloved concrete structure has been standing redundant ever since. More images and the video after the break.

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Here is another example of a building demolition fail, this time in Liuzhou, China. Now they have their own “Pisa Tower”