Buster jangle was the first joint test program between the dod operation buster and los alamos national laboratories operation jangle as part of operation buster 6 500 troops were involved in the operation desert rock. Operation buster jangle was a series of seven six atmospheric one cratering nuclear weapons tests conducted by the united states in late 1951 at the nevada test site. In total 456 nuclear tests were conducted here between 1949 and 1989 including 340 underground and 116 atmospheric explosions.
Nuclear crater concrete dome marshall islands. Over 10 000 people per year visit the crater through free. The crater is the result of the displacement of 12 000 000 short tons 11 000 000 t of earth.
The crater was listed on the national register of historic places on march 21 1994. Sedan crater is the result of the sedan nuclear test and is located within the nevada test site 12 miles 19 km southwest of groom lake nevada area 51. The resultant lake has a diameter of 408 m 1 339 ft and is 100 m 330 ft deep.
The site was a dry bed of the chagan river tributary of irtysh river at the edge of the semipalatinsk test site and was chosen such that the lip of the crater would dam the river during its high spring flow. This causes the surface to depress into a sink which subsidence. Subsidence craters are created as the roof of the cavity caused by the explosion collapses.
A subsidence crater is a hole or depression left on the surface of an area which has had an underground usually nuclear explosion many such craters are present at the nevada test site which is no longer in use for nuclear testing. Able produced no visible crater but sonar revealed that the 21 kiloton baker test the first ever underwater nuclear detonation left a depression in the sea floor 800 meters across and 10 meters. 73 of african americans said they did not have emergency funds to cover three months of expenses.
The nuclear tests took place right after world war ii but the craters remain to this day. The baker test crater is about 8 meters 26 2 feet deep with a diameter of around 700 meters or 2 297 feet. The test s devastating impact on the seabed was clearly revealed in the mapping project.
Instead of testing for warfare purposes the bomb was intended to test the feasibility of using nuclear explosions for civilian purposes such as facilitating mining.
Nuclear test craters. Storax sedan was a shallow underground nuclear test conducted in area 10 of yucca flat at the nevada national security site on july 6 1962 as part of operation plowshare a program to investigate the use of nuclear weapons for mining cratering and other civilian purposes. The radioactive fallout from the test contaminated more us residents than any other nuclear test. The sedan crater located in nevada s area 51 test site usa was formed on july 6 1962 by a 104 kiloton nuclear explosion.
The sedan crater located in nevada s area 51 test site usa was formed on july 6 1962 by a 104 kiloton nuclear explosion. The radioactive fallout from the test contaminated more us residents than any other nuclear test. Storax sedan was a shallow underground nuclear test conducted in area 10 of yucca flat at the nevada national security site on july 6 1962 as part of operation plowshare a program to investigate the use of nuclear weapons for mining cratering and other civilian purposes.
