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The sweet scent of nuclear disaster.

Boing Boing plunged the depths of Etsy to find this 3D-printed replica of the Chernobyl power plant, complete with a ruined reactor that lights up and spews “smoke” when you use it as a diffuser or humidifier.

If that’s too morbid for you, how about an Oceangate Titan sub bathtub bubbler?

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Photo showing the Chernobyl diffuser in action, spewing smoke from the reactor damage.
GIF showing the Chernobyl diffuser in action, spewing smoke from the reactor damage.
Image of a small model of the OceanGate sub, with text advertising it for pools and baths
1/3Image: Alpaca3D / Etsy
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