Defunct coal-fired power station demolished in Germany
Onlookers watch as the boiler house of the former Ibbenbueren coal-fired power plant is blown up.Credit: Friso Gentsch/dpa
A demolition company used some 500 kilograms of explosives to topple a 120-metre boiler house and later brought down a 125-metre cooling tower of a defunct coal-fired power station at Ibbenbüren in western Germany on Sunday.
By Yuriko Wahl-Immel, dpa
A demolition company used some 500 kilograms of explosives to topple a 120-metre boiler house and later brought down a 125-metre cooling tower of a defunct coal-fired power station at Ibbenbüren in western Germany on Sunday.
The demolition in two stages, the first before noon and the second shortly afterwards, had gone according to plan, a company spokeswoman said. A crowd gathered to watch the spectacular even...