Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Complex (Doomtown) | military, nuclear testing area, nuclear waste storage

USA / Nevada / Indian Springs /
 military, nuclear testing area, nuclear waste storage
U.S. Department of Energy's Area 5 Low-Level Waste (LLW) disposal facility. The site is located on the Nevada Test Site (NTS) in Frenchmen Flat. Yucca Mountain is located about 15 miles due west of the site. DOE has disposed of millions of cubic feet of LLW at the Area 5 facility.

This is a facility within the test site that receives low-level radioactive waste from around the country, sorts it, and buries it. The waste stored here is restricted to materials that are not transuranic, and that do not have a half-life greater than 20 years. The pits are about 20 feet deep, and they stack the containers from back to front. When the pit is full, they cover it with dirt to create a mound 4 feet high and mark the corners with concrete posts. It's operated by Bechtel.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site
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Coordinates:   36°51'22"N   115°57'7"W

Comments

  • It looks like they are burying stuff, like they do with low level radiation waste.
  • it is area 5 in the Nevada test site there pics of them filling the pits of low-level raido active waste on the test site website.
  • Nope, Greg and atilla were right. It's the Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site (RWMS). Bigger than it use to be. They sure have been busy the last few years.
  • Doe any of us know where the remnants from the Priscilla tests from the 1950's are? There was a battalion of tanks, Jeeps, trucks, cars, locomotives, etc which got destroyed by the pressure waves and folks who were there told me it was all buried on Area 5.
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