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	Encyclopedia: Nevada Test Site
		Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a one-kiloton of TNT (4 terajoule) bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats on January 27, 1951.
		The Nevada Test Site was the primary testing location of American atomic bombs; only 129 tests were conducted elsewhere (many at the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands).
		Underground testing of weapons continued until September 23, 1992, and although the United States did not ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the articles of the treaty are nevertheless honored and further tests have not occurred.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nevada-Test-Site (2185 words)

	History of the Nevada Test Site
		Nuclear testing at the NTS was conducted in two distinct eras: the atmospheric testing era (January 1951 through October 1958) and the underground testing era (1961 to 1992).
		The 119 nuclear tests that were conducted at the NTS during the atmospheric testing era (1951-1958) consist of 97 nuclear tests conducted in the atmosphere, of two cratering tests, detonated at depths less than 100 feet (30 meters), and of 20 underground tests.
		Tests in vertical drill holes are of two types: smaller-yield devices in relatively shallow holes in the Yucca Flat area (Areas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10) and higher-yield devices in deeper holes on Pahute Mesa (Areas 18, 19, and 20).
	www.shundahai.org /nevada_test_site_history.htm (1997 words)

	Nevada Test Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Baneberry test involved a 10 kiloton nuclear device detonated 910 feet (277 meters) underneath Yucca Flat near the northern border of the Nevada Test Site.
		Shortly after the test, the plug sealing the test shaft from the surface failed and a large quantity of radioactive debris vented to the atmosphere, reaching a height of 10,000 feet (3,048 meters).
		Underground nuclear tests leave subsidence craters of vary dimensions depending on the yield of the device detonated, the depth of emplacement, and the geological characteristics of the surrounding soil.
	www.brook.edu /dybdocroot/FP/projects/nucwcost/nts.htm (469 words)

	Nevada Test Site
		In 1990, the Ledoux nuclear test was conducted in the tunnel.
		Among the remains of the structures tested in Frenchman Flat are simulated motel complexes, metal frames that supported a variety of roofing materials, a window test structure, cylindrical liquid storage vessels, reinforced concrete domes and aluminum domes, bridge pedestals, and a bank vault; all of these remains are of considerable historical interest.
		The purpose of these tests was to investigate the simulated effects of a nuclear surface detonation on a deeply buried, superhard command and control center in a granite rock formation.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/facility/nts.htm (8913 words)

	CNN Cold War - Route Cold War
		The images of devastated mock-ups of houses, test animals seared by firestorms and troops charging under a mushroom cloud are among the most enduring scenes of the nuclear arms race.
		Inside, the floors are littered with evidence of the site's thriving wildlife population, and spent rifle shells testify to past troop exercises in the area.
		This was to be the site of an October 1993 underground test, canceled by the moratorium.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/the.bomb/route/07.test.site (1243 words)

	Nevada Test Site - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		November 1951 nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
		Test is shot "Dog" from Operation Buster, with a yield of 21 kilotons.
		The Yucca Flat area of the Nevada Test Site is scarred with subsidence craters from underground nuclear testing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nevada_Test_Site (193 words)

	DOE - NNSA/NSO -- Nevada Test Site
		The remote site is surrounded by thousands of additional acres of land withdrawn from the public domain for use as a protected wildlife range and for a military gunnery range, creating an unpopulated land area comprising some 5,470 square miles.
		The Nevada Test Site is located 65 miles north of Las Vegas, one of the fastest growing urban areas in the United States.
		Nevada's favorable tax structure with no corporate income tax, no personal income tax, no franchise tax, no inventory tax, no admissions tax, no unitary tax, no inheritance tax, and no capital stock tax, is one reason many businesses are relocating to Nevada.
	www.nv.doe.gov /nts/default.htm (611 words)

	Nevada Division of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Federal Facilities - Photo Page, Nevada Test Site (NTS)
		The disposal site is located in the south eastern portion of the Nevada Test Site (NTS) in an area known as Frenchman Flat.
		The site is used for disposal of Low-Level defense waste, classified waste, mixed Low-Level waste and storage of Transuranic Waste.
		Tests were conducted to help develop the nation's strategies for protecting the civilian population, industries, businesses, schools, and hospitals in case of a nuclear attack.
	ndep.nv.gov /boff/photo03.htm (480 words)

	Seattle Times Trinity Web: Part II
		One purpose of the 1962 Sedan test was investigating whether nuclear weapons could be used to excavate canals and harbors.
		Nevada Test Site still has cyclone-fence pens to hold protesters who used to assemble at the gate and get arrested.
		Tom Seed, a physicist at the Nevada Test Site, noted that in one recent series of 12 underground explosions, six weapons "underperformed" and had to be reworked.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /trinity/articles/part2.html (2291 words)

	Nevada Test Site, Nevada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The site is surrounded on three sides by the 4,120 square-mile Nellis Air Force Range, which provides a substantial buffer between the site and surrounding communities.
		During 1993, with a budget of $70.7 million, Nevada initiated soil and vegetation removal demonstrations to determine the applicability of a cleanup technology for plutonium contaminated soils, removed abandoned septic tanks, and surveyed offsite locations in Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico to determine the presence of biological species, cultural resources, wetlands, and flood plains.
		Some waste disposed of at the Nevada Test Site does not meet requirements for shallow burial and must be disposed of in a geologic repository.
	web.em.doe.gov /em94/swnts.html (742 words)

	Central Nevada Test Area and Project Shoal Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		All of the sites use the Environmental Restoration program general approach, which is outlined in the introduction to the Environmental Restoration program in the Nevada Test Site.
		The purpose of the test was to determine the effect of a nuclear detonation in a granite rock formation and to compare the seismic activity of natural earthquakes with activity from an underground nuclear explosion.
		Activities at these sites are assumed to consist of characterizing the ground-water flow using existing monitoring wells and characterizing the surface areas using additional field samples and tests.
	web.em.doe.gov /bemr96/cnts.html (1868 words)

	Field Trips: Nevada Test Site 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The test, part of the Buster-Jangle series, was the eighth detonation at the Nevada Proving Grounds.
		Because the "Schooner" and "Sedan" craters at the Nevada Test Site had features similar to the topography of Moon craters, astronauts used them to train for their missions.
		Sedan was the second in the Plowshare seriesl the first test, "Gnome," was fired on December 10, 1961 naer Carlsbad, NM.
	www.lpl.arizona.edu /grad/fieldtrips/NTS/nts3.html (649 words)

	ipedia.com: Nevada Test Site Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Nevada Test Site is a United States Department of Energy reservation located about 65 miles northwest of the City of Las Vegas.
		The Nevada Test Site is a United States Department of Energy reservation located about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the City of Las Vegas.
		The Site is home to Area 51 and the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility.
	www.ipedia.com /nevada_test_site.html (283 words)

	Nevada Test Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Nevada Test Site is owned by the Department of Energy and is the largest known energy research area in the world.
		In order to conduct large conventional high-explosive experiments on the site firing table while operating personnel are present in the control bunker, it first had to be certified as safe.
		The test data was used to develop an effects profile that defined the relationship of the high-explosive charge size and detonation point to blast effects, such as overpressure, bunker wall strain, dynamic response (acceleration), and noise amplitude.
	www.dreamlandresort.com /info/nts.htm (1461 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Government proposes secure document facility at Nevada Test Site
		The plan, released Monday, called the Test Site "one of the nation's most secure federal locations," and said the new facility could produce security and intelligence documents including new "electronic passports" containing computer chips.
		It also was not clear how the printing office identified the Test Site as a suitable spot, or what approvals the site would need.
		The Test Site, about 65 miles northwest Las Vegas, was the nation's nuclear weapons proving ground until 1992.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20041213-1415-nv-documentsecurity.html (429 words)

	Nevada Test Site
		Between 1951 and 1962, 126 atmospheric tests of atomic weapons were conducted within the Test Site's boundaries.
		The site is only open to the public once a quarter, with the exact day picked a few months in advance.
		The Nevada Test Site is located 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas on I-95, although the only way to go on the tour is to take the special bus that leaves from Las Vegas.
	www.atomictourist.com /nts.htm (393 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Nevada Test Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A nuclear bomb detonates at the Nevada Test Site, which covers an area of 3500 sq km (1350 sq mi) in southern Nevada.
		The United States conducted atmospheric (above-ground) and underground nuclear tests at the site between 1951 and 1962.
		All U. nuclear tests since July 1962 have been underground, and most have been conducted at this site.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461525522/Nevada_Test_Site.html (66 words)

	U.S. Nuclear Weapons Research, Development, Testing, and Production, and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Facilities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Facilities include an explosives test site, a tritium facility, the NOVA laser, the Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation (AVLIS) plant, Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) facilities, the National Ignition Facility (NIF, currently under construction) and the High Explosive Application Facility (HEAF).
		RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS ON-SITE: 12.7 metric tons of plutonium-239 (11.9 metric tons declared excess by President Clinton on March 1, 1995), 6.7 metric tons of uranium-235 (2.8 metric tons declared excess by President Clinton on March 1, 1995), and 262 metric tons of depleted uranium.
		The site was briefly known as the Holifield National Laboratory, after staff members on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy acted unilaterally in late 1974 and changed the name to honor their retiring chairman, Rep. Chet Holifield (D-CA).
	www.brook.edu /fp/projects/nucwcost/sites.htm (6240 words)

	Yucca Mountain Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The U.S. Department of Energy began studying Yucca Mountain, Nevada, in 1978 to determine whether it would be suitable for the nation's first long-term geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
		Currently stored at 126 sites around the nation, these materials are a result of nuclear power generation and national defense programs.
		Yucca Mountain is located in a remote desert on federally protected land within the secure boundaries of the Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada.
	www.ocrwm.doe.gov /ymp/index.shtml (167 words)

	Nevada Test Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The test marked the first time that Gordon took to the track under the new 2004 NASCAR rules for the spoilers and tires on the cars.
		With the amount of interest in the Nevada test, one could assume it was a classified endeavor at Yucca Flat....
		This (test) is actually a lot more fun than Daytona because, as a driver, you're so limited on what you can do as far as how you're able to change the speed of the car-- you really can't do anything at Daytona or Talladega-- where, here, you can play a big role in it."
	www.gordonline.com /archive/012804.html (463 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Atlas experiment held at Nevada Test Site
		A powerful pulse of electrical current crushed an aluminum shell at the Nevada Test Site on Wednesday, the first experiment on a transplanted laboratory generator designed to test materials similar to those used in nuclear weapons.
		The Atlas equipment was moved from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to the Test Site in October 2002 in order to allow scientists to conduct checks on the safety of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile without underground nuclear detonations.
		The Atlas Pulsed Power Facility drew scientists from Los Alamos, the Test Site and Bechtel Nevada, manager and operator of the Test Site, to perform the first physics experiment to prove the generator is ready, said Darwin Morgan, spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/lv-other/2005/jul/28/519120117.html (321 words)

	Nevada Test Site
		The Nevada Test Site is a Rhode Island-sized testing ground northwest of Las Vegas where the U.S. conducted the majority of its nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War.
		Today, the Test Site is under consideration for various storage and processing projects for dangerous materials, and some non-nuclear and sub-critical explosions are still conducted there.
		The final nuclear test, Divider, was conducted on Sept. 23, 1992.
	www.ufomind.com /area51/orgs/nts (634 words)

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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/nevada_test_site.htm (121 words)

	Alsos: Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation
		This website provides an overview of the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation and features the foundation's most recent accomplishment, the opening of the Atomic Testing Museum.
		The foundation is dedicated to increasing public awareness of the history of the Nevada facility in which hundreds of nuclear devices were tested above and below ground during the Cold War.
		The Atomic Testing Museum, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is located on the campus of the Desert Research Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada.
	alsos.wlu.edu /information.aspx?id=2150 (113 words)

	The Nevada Desert Experience
		The mission of Nevada Desert Experience (NDE) is to stop nuclear weapons testing through a campaign of prayer, education, dialogue, and nonviolent direct action.
		In the case of the Nevada Test Site, the land legally belongs to the Western Shoshone Nation by the Treaty of Ruby Valley (1863).
		While the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Non-proliferation Treaty have been resounding victories for our movement toward nuclear abolition, the United States is currently spending more American tax dollars on the nuclear weapons’; program than at any point during the Cold War.
	www.nevadadesertexperience.org (835 words)

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		A key role of the Nevada Test Site is acceptance and disposal of radioactive waste generated at other Department of Energy Sites throughout the nation.
		One of the questions often posed by stakeholders is related to the potential for cumulative exposure to radiation from the trucks hauling the waste.
		The Department of Energy’s Nevada Site Office Waste Management Division recently funded the Desert Research Institute to carefully analyze this subject.
	www.ntscab.com (422 words)

	The Nevada Desert Experience
		We are called to renew our witness to justice at the Test Site and all places and to inspire and empower all relationships within our work, as we remember the genocide of our sisters and brothers in Nagasaki and Hiroshima 60 years ago.
		Our voice calls out, during this Year of Remembrance and Action, for the immediate ending of nuclear testing at any level and the disarmament and abolition of all nuclear weapons.
		Our days of dialogue and witness together mark a rebirth, a regeneration of the peoples’ movement in solidarity with the oneness of all living things.
	www.nevadadesertexperience.org /programs/august2005/program.htm (288 words)

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