Yucca Flat

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Yucca Flat is the densest testing area where nuclear tests were conducted in the Nevada National Security Site. Yucca Flat was the site for 739 nuclear tests – nearly four of every five tests carried out at the NTS. From 1951 to 1956, many of these tests were above ground. The landscape is riddled with hundreds of subsidence craters or other surface effects from the nuclear tests. Perhaps the largest such feature is the Sedan Crater at the north end of the area. Within the Nevada National Security Site, this area is enumerated as roughly Area 1 to Area 10. The last test was Operation Julin's "Divider" on September 23, 1992.

For a complete map of the site with detonation locations, see:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USGS_NTS_detonations.png
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Flat
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Coordinates:   37°4'57"N   116°2'55"W
This article was last modified 12 years ago