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Radioactive waste management site at Frenchman Flat: photographic print
Date
1945-19-82
Archival Collection
Description
The radioactive waste management site at Frenchman Flat (area 5) provides surface storage and trench disposal of contaminated materials with low levels of radioactivity at the Nevada Test Site (NTS).
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Gate 100 into the Nevada Test Site: photographic print
Date
1945-19-82
Archival Collection
Description
Security guards check access badges at Gate 100, Nevada Test Site (NTS). The NTS is closed to the public, except for people on official business. The Test Site was dedicated as a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Research Park in 1992.
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Landscape view of the IDECO 2500: photographic print
Date
1945-19-82
Archival Collection
Description
The IDECO 2500, used at the Nevada Test Site, is a 2000 horsepower diesel electric rig capable of drilling holes 72 to 140 inches in diameter to depths of 4000 feet.
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Inside view of Control Point at the Nevada Test Site: photographic print
Date
1945-19-82
Archival Collection
Description
Inside the Control Point at the Nevada Test Site the Test Controller (at table) prepares to conduct a nuclear test. Members of the Test Controller's Advisory Panel (at table) are experts in nuclear weapons, meteorology, radiation, and nuclear medicine.
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Signal cables laid out at Yucca Flats: photographic print
Date
1945-19-82
Archival Collection
Description
Signal cables laid out at a test location on Yucca Flats, the principal underground nuclear weapons testing area at Nevada Test Site (NTS).
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Craters at the Nevada Test Site: photographic print
Date
1945-19-82
Archival Collection
Description
Final test preparations (at the Nevada Test Site) include running miles of cable down hole. A rack containing instrumentation to go down hole is assembled in the tower to the right. Subsidence craters from earlier underground tests dot landscape.
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Fabrication of line-of-sight pipes: photographic print
Date
1945-19-82
Archival Collection
Description
Line-of-sight pipes are fabricated inside tunnels at Rainier Mesa on Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site. The Department of Energy works with the Defense Nuclear Agency in measuring the effects of blast-produced radiation on military hardware.
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Unidentified man next to hole-drilling equipment: photographic print
Date
1945-19-82
Archival Collection
Description
Unidentified man standing next to big hole drilling equipment at the Nevada Test Site. This the IDECO 2500, a diesel electric rig dwarfs normal oil field gear and is capable of drilling holes up to 120 inches in diameter and 6,000 feet deep.
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Canister for "Handley" test lowered into hole: photographic print
Date
1970-03
Archival Collection
Description
A nuclear explosive and diagnostic canister for a test named "Handley" is lowered down hole at Pahute Mesa in the Northwestern corner of the Nevada Test Site. Pahute Mesa is used for higher-yield tests because of its remoteness. The Handley test was conducted in March, 1970.
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Portrait view of the IDECO 2500: photographic print
Date
1945-19-82
Archival Collection
Description
Another view of the IDECO 2500, a diesel electric rig used to drill holes at the Nevada Test Site (see photograph #0011 in this collection).
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