FALLOUT FROM NUCLEAR TESTS AT THE NEVADA TEST SITE

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Presented at the Hearings on Fallout before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, May 5-8. 1959. About one megaton of energy from fission has been released at the Nevada Test Site from nuclear test detonations. The total tesultant fission product activity, if measured at one hour after formation, would have been about 400 to 600 billion curies. There was nothing that could be done to lessen the production of radioactive isotopes from a fission reaction thus the utmost care and skill were required ia the conduct of the tests to minimize the deppsition of the activity outside the Test Site. A summary of the data on fall-out from nuclear detonations at the Nevada Test Site is presented. (auth)

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