I just spent a week in Sarpsborg-Fredrikstad, and I kept seeing these manhole covers with an atomic motif on it. Google didn’t help, and my friend, a Fredrikstad native, had no clue either. What’s up with them?

by zappapostrophe

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  1. The only nuclear reactor in norway was in that area. It was closed down when it was fiscovered that the scientists working there had been faking results and producing bogus reports

  3. Looks like the symbol Doctor Manhattan reject in watchmen.

  5. It’s the symbol we have/had for the celebration/marking of the millennium (year 2000).

    Source: I lived it. I’m not sure I can find documentation for it though. Sorry.

  6. It is a motif or logo that Fredrikstad kommune used for several things when approaching the new millennium. Most things with that logo are gone now, but manhole covers last a very long time. There’s also Tusenårsstedet (millennial place), a part of a park where a time capsule from about 1999 is buried, and the same logo is a large metal sculpture. You can see it in photos here https://huskerdu.no/tusenarsstedet-i-fredrikstad-%F0%9F%8C%9F%F0%9F%8F%B0

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