Detailed Geophysical Fault Characterization in Yucca Flat, Nevada Test Site, Nevada
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Yucca Flat is a topographic and structural basin in the northeastern part of the Nevada Test Site (NTS) in Nye County, Nevada. Between the years 1951 and 1992, 659 underground nuclear tests took place in Yucca Flat; most were conducted in large, vertical excavations that penetrated alluvium and the underlying Cenozoic volcanic rocks. Radioactive and other potential chemical contaminants at the NTS are the subject of a long-term program of investigation and remediation by the U.S. Department of …
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Date:
February 10, 2009
Creator:
Asch, Theodore H.; Sweetkind, Donald; Burton, Bethany L. & Wallin, Erin L.
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