Semipalatinsk-21 (aka Degelen Mountain) Underground Nuclear Test Site

Kazakhstan / Sigis Kazakstan / Chagan /
Site of over 200 Russian underground nuclear weapons tests conducted after 1963. Subject to a major secret cleanup operation lasting from 1996 to 2012 to clean up Plutonium residue and pure weapons grade metal left over from successful explosions and dud devices.

belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/Plutonium%20Mountain...

www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/world/asia/a-secret-race-for...
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Coordinates:   49°47'12"N   78°3'46"E

Comments

  • да помню точку г. в\ч 02588 я служил там 1988-1990 осень. штольня 169\2 жили в палатках до и после взрыва . кто был там отзовитесь пацаны. буду рад. склад электриков . всо.
  • испытовали реактивный двигатель вот было зрелище.
  • The first Soviet underground nuclear test here at Delegen Mountain was on 11th October 1961 in a tunnel and for the purpose of fundamental science, rather than weapon development. The yield was 1.4 kt. The western codename assigned to it was Joe-100.
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