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FALLOUT FROM NUCLEAR TESTS
AT
NEVADA TEST SITE
Since the resumption of nuclear tests on September 15, 1961,
the United States Atomic Energy Cammission had detonated 58 nu-
clear devices at the Nevada Test Site as of October 27, 1962.
Fifty-seven of these were weapons tests, and one was a cratering
experiment in the Plowshare program.
Of the weapons tests, 52
detonations were in underground chambers which were designed to
contain radioactivity, and five were detonated either in the atmosphere or at a shallow depth below the surface.
The five latter
detonations and the cratering experiment, in which the detonation
occurred at a depth of 635 feet, were conducted under conditions
in which exposures to populated off-site areas were minimized.
DOE ARCHIVES
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