Editing Nevada Test Site (section)

==Landmarks and geography==
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A table of interesting places in and around the NNSS is presented here, which corresponds with many of the descriptions in the Nevada Test Site Guide.<ref>{{Cite report|url=http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/publications/historical/DOENV_715_Rev1.pdf|access-date=December 25, 2013|title=Nevada Test Site Guide|publisher=National Nuclear Security Administration|volume=DOE/NV-715 Rev 1|year=2005|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130227180818/http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/publications/historical/DOENV_715_Rev1.pdf|archive-date=February 27, 2013}}</ref>
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|+Interesting locations in the NNSS
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 ! Name
 ! Location
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 ! [[Mercury, Nevada|Mercury]]
 | Area 23 {{coord|36.6594|-115.99642|name=Mercury}}
 | The base housing and office area for the site.
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 ! Principal Underground Laboratory for Subcritical Experimentation (PULSE), formerly known as U1a
 | Area 1 {{coord|37.00819|-116.05894|name=U1a}}
 | PULSE, formerly known as U1a, is an underground laboratory used for physics experiments that obtain technical information about the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. U1h and U1g, shafts which add data access, ventilation and other utilities to the facility, are just north of this entrance.
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 ! Industrial area
 | Area 1 {{coord|37.06561|-116.13411|name=Industrial area}}
 | Houses $20 million worth of mining tools; contains an area for creating site grout and stemming mixes.
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 ! Doomtown
 | Area 5 {{coord|36.79805|-115.93416|name=Doomtown}}
 | The original effects test area and close cousin to Survival City in Area 1.
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 ! EPA's NTS Dairy
 | Area 15 {{coord|37.20829|-116.04037|name=EPA Dairy}}
 | A dairy and pig farm maintained from 1964 to 1984 by the EPA, mainly to provide experimental data for uptake of milk contamination, following ''Operation Schooner''.
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 ! [[Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository]]
 | Area 25 {{coord|36.85282|-116.42672|name=Yucca Mountain}}
 | Yucca Mountain radioactive disposal site. This is the north entrance; the south entrance is about {{convert|1.7|mi}} SSW.
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 ! A Tunnel
 | Area 16 {{coord|37.01245|-116.19565|name=A tunnel entrance}}
 | Shoshone Mountain, Tunnel A Entrance.
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 ! B Tunnel
 | Area 12 {{coord|37.19345|-116.19887|name=B tunnel entrance}}
 | [[Rainier Mesa]], Tunnel B Entrance.
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 ! C, D, and F Tunnels
 | Area 12 {{coord|37.19322|-116.19999|name=C, D and F tunnel entrances}}
 | Rainier Mesa, tunnels C, D, and F Entrances – separate, but very close together.
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 ! E Tunnel
 | Area 12 {{coord|37.18816|-116.19477|name=E tunnel entrance}}
 | Rainier Mesa, Tunnel E Entrance.
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 ! G Tunnel
 | Area 12 {{coord|37.1694|-116.1947|name=G tunnel entrance}}
 | Rainier Mesa, Tunnel G Entrance.
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 ! I Tunnel
 | Area 12 {{coord|37.21876|-116.16036|name=I tunnel entrance}}
 | Rainier Mesa, Tunnel I Entrance.
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 ! J Tunnel
 | Area 12 {{coord|37.21884|-116.16319|name=J tunnel entrance}}
 | Rainier Mesa, Tunnel J Entrance.
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 ! K Tunnel
 | Area 12 {{coord|37.21878|-116.15891|name=K tunnel entrance}}
 | Rainier Mesa, Tunnel K Entrance.
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 ! N Tunnel
 | Area 12 {{coord|37.20169|-116.19187|name=N tunnel entrance}}
 | Rainier Mesa, Tunnel N Entrance.
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 ! P Tunnel
 | Area 12 {{coord|37.22906|-116.1535|name=P tunnel entrance}}
 | Rainier Mesa, Tunnel P Entrance.
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 ! T Tunnel
 | Area 12 {{coord|37.21589|-116.16711|name=T tunnel entrance}}
 | Rainier Mesa, Tunnel T Entrance.
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 ! X Tunnel
 | Area 25 {{coord|36.74542|-116.32816|name=X tunnel entrance}}
 | Two tunnel entrances, used by the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory for depleted uranium testing.
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 ! Operation Icecap
 | Area 7 {{coord|37.0808|-116.04558|name=Icecap}}
 | Operation Icecap was being built up when the 1992 Comprehensive Test Ban was signed.  The equipment was left in place, including the {{convert|.5|e6lb|kg}} instrumentation payload, the crane, the wiring, and many of the recording trailers.
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 ! Operation Gabbs
 | Area 2 {{coord|37.13796|-116.07353|name=Gabbs}}
 | Operation Gabbs was another shaft detonation scheduled for 1993 that was laid to rest by the '92 test ban treaty.
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 ! Operation Greenwater
 | Area 20 {{coord|37.23086|-116.44725|name=Greenwater}}
 | The third suspended test was Operation Greenwater, the test of the space X-Ray laser system, a part of the [[Strategic Defense Initiative|Star Wars concept]]. The {{convert|45|m}} tower remains on the site.
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 ! [[Operation_Teapot#Apple-2|Survival City]]
 | Area 1 {{coord|37.05305|-116.10339|name=Survival City}}
 | The alternative to Doomtown. Used in the Teapot Desert/Rock exercises, and the Civil Defence/PR effort Operation Cue. Name taken from "News of the Day" newsreel about the Apple 2 test.
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 ! Fortune Training Area
 | Area 1 {{coord|36.98689|-116.04384|name=Fortune Training Area}}
 | Fortune was a training facility for building bomb test sites.  Site reused for Unicorn test in 2005–06.
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 ! [[Divine Strake]]
 | Area 16 {{coord|37.02245|-116.18203|name=U16b tunnel, "Divine Strake"}}
 | U16b tunnel entrance complex, including ''Divine Strake'' proposed 700t chemical blast tunnel on the north, the latter heavily protested, delayed, and eventually abandoned.
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 ! Plutonium Valley
 | Area 11 {{coord|36.97659|-115.96228|name=Plutonium Valley}}
 | Area contains scattered raw plutonium from plutonium dispersal safety tests.
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 ! Original [[BREN Tower]]
 | Area 4 {{coord|37.09869|-116.09685|name=BREN original placement}}
 | Original site of the Bare Reactor Experiment in Nevada (BREN), a reactor on a tower which emulated bomb explosions for medical studies.  A Japanese village was constructed around it because it focused on war bomb injuries.  BREN was later moved to Area 25.
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 ! [[BREN Tower]]
 | Area 25 {{coord|36.78062|-116.24358|name=BREN move here}}
 | The BREN (Bare Reactor Experiment, Nevada) is a {{convert|453|m|abbr=on}} tall tower originally in Yucca Flat, used to experimentally irradiate ground targets with gamma and neutrons.  Moved to Jackass Flat, for HENRE (High Energy Neutrons Action Experiment) and demolished in 2012.
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 ! [[NERVA|Nerva]] Test Stand
 | Area 25 {{coord|36.83162|-116.27809|name=Nerva test stand}}
 | Test stand for the "Nerva" nuclear rocket.
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 ! [[Nuclear thermal rocket|KIWI-TNT]]
 | Area 25 {{coord|36.83285|-116.27914|name=KIWI-TNT}}
 | Test of the Nerva engine to destruction, to determine worst-case scenario for runaway reactor.  1.6 Mci released.
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 ! DAF
 | Area 6 {{coord|36.89827|-116.04814|name=DAF}}
 | Device Assembly Facility: bombs and components are made ready for testing here.
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 ! RWMS-5
 | Area 5 {{coord|36.85758|-115.9551|name=RWMS-5}}
 | Radioactive Waste Management Facility, Area 5
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 ! E-MAD Building
 | Area 25 {{coord|36.80646|-116.30476|name=E-MAD}}
 | Engine Maintenance and Disassembly Building, used for handling radioactive NERVA engines; site being dismantled.
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 ! R-MAD Building
 | Area 25 {{coord|36.8161|-116.23936|name=R-MAD}}
 | Reactor Maintenance and Disassembly Building, maintained radioactive NERVA reactors.  Also used in the MX program; site being dismantled.
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 ! ETS-1 Test Stand
 | Area 25 {{coord|36.8321|-116.31217|name=ETS-1 test stand}}
 | Engineering Test Stand 1, a stand for testing nuclear rockets in a standard upright position.
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 ! [[LGM-118 Peacekeeper|MX]] Testing Area
 | Area 25 {{coord|36.69946|-116.37952|name=MX test area}}
 | MX missile test track and silo
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 ! JASPER
 | Area 27 {{coord|36.77496|-116.11703|name=JASPER}}
 | Houses the Joint Actinide Shock Physics Experimental Research, a two-stage light-gas gun for shock experiments.
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 ! Camp 12
 | Area 12 {{coord|37.19598|-116.15624|name=Camp 12}}
 | Camp for miners and others working on the Rainier Mesa in the '70s.
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 ! BEEF
 | Area 4 {{coord|37.09611|-116.09262|name=BEEF}}
 | Big Explosives Experimental Facility
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 ! Area 3 RWMS
 | Area 3 {{coord|37.04445|-116.02425|name=RWMS}}
 | Low level Radioactive Waste Management Facility.  Waste (mostly dirt) is buried in a selection of old subsidence craters.
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 ! [[Pulsed Power|Atlas Pulse Power]]
 | Area 6 {{coord|36.97946|-116.03965|name=Atlas Pulse Power}}
 | The Atlas Pulse Power Facility
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 ! Apple-2 houses
 | Area 1 {{coord|37.04434|-116.07397|name=Apple-2 houses}}
 | Three "typical American" houses built for the Apple-2 civil defense event.  The one on the left is {{convert|1.5|mi}} from the 29kt blast, the right one {{convert|2|mi}}.  The left one is on the monthly tour bus route.  The two towers are from later seismic studies.
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 ! News Nob
 | Area 6 {{coord|36.945|-116.05|name=News Nob}}
 | The location from which VIPs and news people would watch nuclear tests.
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 ! Annie Emplacement
 | Area 5 {{coord|36.7128|-115.9673|name=Annie emplacement}}
 | Location of "[[Atomic Annie]]" (M65 280mm nuclear field artillery) emplacement for [[Upshot-Knothole Grable]] test.<ref>[https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1821223 Desert Research Institute Cultural Resources Report TR118, Project Number188305, DOE/NV/0003590-53] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219163650/https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1821223 |date=February 19, 2024 }}, p.  29</ref>
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 ! BACHUS Site
 | Area 12 {{coord|37.19569|-116.1584|name=BACHUS}}
 | Biotechnology Activity Characterization by Unconventional Signatures, a biowarfare simulation facility.
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 ! Rad/NucCTEC
 | Area 6 {{coord|36.89026|-116.03093|name=Rad/NucTEC}}
 | Radiological/Nuclear Countermeasures Test and Evaluation Complex Homeland Security operational nuclear test and training center
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 ! [[Project Pluto]]
 | Area 26 {{coord|36.81744|-116.14906|name=Project Pluto}}
 | Ram-jet nuclear-powered cruise missile engine development project; site being dismantled.
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 ! Lockheed-Martin AOF
 | Area 6 {{coord|36.92692|-116.00755|name=AOF – UAV test area}}
 | Aerial Operations Facility; a testing area for UAVs.
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 ! [[Desert Rock exercises|Camp Desert Rock]]
 | Area 22 {{coord|36.62593|-116.01937|name=Camp Desert Rock}}
 | The Army Camp that housed the participants in Operations Desert Rock I-VIII. Across the road is the Pig Hilton, where test subjects were housed.
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 ! Test Control Point
 | Area 6 {{coord|36.93453|-116.05482|name=Test Control Point}}
 | NTS Test control center (CP-1). These two buildings controlled the tests performed at the site.
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 ! NNSS-CTOS
 | Area 1 {{coord|37.05263|-116.10308|name=CTOS}}
 | Counter Terrorism Operations Support, a location for training in emergency preparedness in radiological emergencies.
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 ! Super Kukla
 | Area 27 {{coord|36.77907|-116.11041|name=Super Kukla}}
 | A naked reactor test area designed to test equipment under a hostile radioactive environment, 1965–78.
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 ! Bleachers
 | Area 5 {{coord|36.7014|-115.9731|name=VIP Bleachers}}
 | Bleacher area for viewing of Frenchman Flat events.(14 Atmospheric Tests)<ref>Nevada Test Site Guide DOE/NV-715 Rev. 1, p. 8</ref>
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 ! BODF
 | Area 4 {{coord|37.08068|-116.08697|name=BODF}}
 | Buried Objects Detection Facility, area to test and calibrate mine sweeping equipment against buried objects.
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 ! Gun Turret [[USS Louisville (CA-28)|USS ''Louisville'']]
 | Area 2 {{coord|37.13945|-116.10904|name=Gun Turret}}
 | Used in calibration of ''Whitney, Shasta, Diablo'' and ''Smoky'' tests. Made of "old" steel from 1940s U.S. heavy cruiser (USS ''Louisville'' CA 28) damaged from kamikaze on January 5, 1945; it was "aimed" at the shot cab to get radiation data.
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 ! Hazmat Spill Facility
 | Area 5 {{coord|36.80138|-115.95075|name=Hazmat Spill Facility}}
 | Hazmat Spill Test Facility – used to test Hazmat strategies and tactics. Became the Nonproliferation Test and Evaluation Complex in 2005.
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 ! RBIFF
 | Area 26 {{coord|36.81645|-116.16486|name=RBIFF}}
 | Re-entry Body Impact Fuze Flights
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 ! Ship of the Desert
 | Area 5 {{coord|36.87486|-115.92957|display=inline=Ship of the Deserte}}
 | A massive tracked structure designed to capture neutrons from the ''Diagonal Line'' experiment.
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 ! Rock Valley Study
 | Area 25 {{coord|36.68406|-116.19397|name=Rock Valley Study}}
 | The circles are the Rock Valley Study Area, environmental research area for studying radiation in the desert ecosystem.
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 ! Climax Mine
 | Area 15 {{coord|37.22352|-116.05895|name=Climax Mine}}
 | Location of an old silver mine, recycled for three nuclear tests and the Spent Fuel Test in which spent nuclear fuel was stored in a mine drift to study the effects on the granite walls.
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 ! The Forest
 | Area 5 {{coord|36.795|-115.951|name=The Forest}}
 | The famous forest on the desert, swept by the blasts of ''Encore'' and ''Grable''.<ref>Shots Encore to Climax – The Final Four Tests of the UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE Series DNA6018F, p. 46</ref>
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![[The House in the Middle]]
|Area 5 {{coord|36.788757|-115.954654|name=House in the Middle}}
|1954 short documentary from the Encore test. A clean, freshly painted house might save your home in a nuclear attack.<ref>[https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1821223 Desert Research Institute Cultural Resources Report TR118, Project Number188305, DOE/NV/0003590-53] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219163650/https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1821223 |date=February 19, 2024 }}, p. 15</ref>
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