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The Central Nevada Test Site Base Camp is a cluster of small technical buildings, sheds, residences, and an airstrip, with a recently upgraded and lighted runway. It is now used primarily by the Air Force in association with activities at the Nellis Range Complex,...
The Nevada Test Site (NTS) is a 1,350 square miles (860,000 acres) restricted area in southern Nevada, owned and operated by the Department of Energy. It is a multi-use, open-air laboratory that was the primary location of the nuclear weapons testing program for the...
One of three underground nuclear tests performed at different places on this 43-mile long island in the Aleutian Chain. This 1969 test, named Milrow, consisted of an 1.2 megaton-yield bomb, detonated at the bottom of a 3,990-foot shaft. The test was part of a...
The largest underground nuclear test conducted by the United States, Project Cannikin was one of three underground nuclear tests performed at different places on this 43-mile long island in the Aleutian Chain. This $200 million 1971 test was performed to test an Anti-...
One of three underground nuclear tests performed at different places on this 43-mile long island in the Aleutian Chain. This 1965 test, named Long Shot, consisted of an 85 kiloton yield bomb, detonated at the bottom of a 2,359-foot shaft. The test was one of several in...
Faultless was a large (approx. one megaton) underground nuclear experiment conducted in 1968 to test the possibility of developing the area as a second nuclear testing location. The Central Nevada Test Site would have hosted several high-yield nuclear tests associated...
An underground nuclear test took place at this site in 1973, to investigate the possibility of using nuclear explosions to extract natural gas from low grade deposits. The test, the last in the Plowshare Program, called Rio Blanco, was performed by the Atomic Energy...
The Project Gnome Site is the location of a 1961 underground nuclear test conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission, near Loving, New Mexico. This was the first test in the Plowshare Program, a program to develop peaceful uses for nuclear weapons. The Lawrence...
An underground nuclear detonation took place at this site in 1969, to investigate the possibility of using nuclear explosions to extract natural gas from low grade deposits. The test, a Plowshare Program experiment called Project Rulison, was performed by the Atomic...
Two nuclear detonations performed in a subterranean salt dome formation in Mississippi, as part of a 1960's Atomic Energy Commission Test. The test program, called Project Dribble, called for creating an underground cavity, using a nuclear bomb to do so, then later...
One of two major underground nuclear tests in Nevada that were performed off the Nevada Test Site. Conducted in 1963, Shoal was an experiment to study earthquake effects. A 12 kiloton bomb was detonated 1,200 feet below the surface. The site now is unmarked and...
The Gasbuggy Nuclear Test Site is the location of a 1967 underground nuclear explosion, conducted to test the viability of using a nuclear device to aid in natural gas extraction. It was part of the Plowshare Program, the program to develop peaceful uses of nuclear...
The Tonopah Test Range is a 525 square mile test facility on the north end of the Air Force's 4,000 square mile Nellis Range Complex in Nevada, and is the principal weapons field test site for Sandia Labs, based in New Mexico. There are major facilities here, including...
The Malta Test Station is a 165-acre industrial R...
The site of the world's first nuclear blast, the Trinity shot of the Manhattan Project, is on the north end of the 4,000 square mile White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The site consists of a fenced area that encloses much of the ground-zero area, with a monument...
Project Chariot was the code-name for a proposed excavation project, to build a harbor on the west coast of Alaska, using nuclear bombs, and was part of the Plowshare Program, to develop engineering uses for nuclear technology. The project was never executed, but...
Nuclear R&D and training site operates by the DOE. For a few decades the site had a full-scale nuclear reactor prototype for testing and training of Navy personnel, operated by Knolls Lab. That site was remediated in 2006, and is now mostly gone. Other tech...
In 1954, a dust-filled movie called "The Conqueror", starring John Wayne as Genghis Kahn, was shot in this valley, on ground that had been recently subjected to fallout from a series of nuclear tests at the nearby Nevada Test Site (especially dirty at this time was the...
The Savannah River Site is a 310-square-mile Department of Energy (DOE) facility located on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River. It is one of the major nuclear materials processing plants in the United States, and is operated by the Westinghouse Company. The...
Nuclear technology lab and test location, and a major radioactive material storage/disposal site. Located on 573,608 acres in southern Idaho, facilities include 52 nuclear reactors, 13 of which are still operable. The Navy's nuclear-powered submarine reactors are...