Air Monitoring Network at Tonopah Test Range: Network Description and Capabilities
Abstract
During the period April to June 2008, at the behest of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office (NNSA/NSO); the Desert Research Institute (DRI) constructed and deployed two portable environmental monitoring stations at the Tonopah Test Range (TTR) as part of the Environmental Restoration Project Soils Sub-Project. The TTR is located within the boundaries of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) near the northern edge, and covers an area of approximately 725.20 km2 (179,200 acres). The primary objective of the monitoring stations is to evaluate whether and under what conditions there is wind transport of radiological contaminants from one of the three Soil Sub-Project Corrective Action Units (CAUs) associated with Operation Roller Coaster on TTR. Operation Roller Coaster was a series of tests, conducted in 1963, designed to examine the stability and dispersal of plutonium in storage and transportation accidents. These tests did not result in any nuclear explosive yield. However, the tests did result in the dispersal of plutonium and contamination of surface soils in the surrounding area.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office
- Sponsoring Org.:
- Nevada Site Office
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1009527
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NV/26383-LTR2010-01
TRN: US201109%%188
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA26383
- Resource Type:
- Other
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ACCIDENTS; AIR; CONTAMINATION; DESERTS; MONITORING; NEVADA; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVES; PLUTONIUM; SECURITY; SOILS; STABILITY; STORAGE; TONOPAH TEST RANGE; TRAINING; TRANSPORT; Air Monitoring Network at Tonopah Test Range: Network Description and Capabilities
Citation Formats
Tappen, Jeffrey, Nikolich, George, Giles, Ken, Shafer, David, and Kluesner, Tammy. Air Monitoring Network at Tonopah Test Range: Network Description and Capabilities. United States: N. p., 2010.
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Tappen, Jeffrey, Nikolich, George, Giles, Ken, Shafer, David, & Kluesner, Tammy. Air Monitoring Network at Tonopah Test Range: Network Description and Capabilities. United States.
Tappen, Jeffrey, Nikolich, George, Giles, Ken, Shafer, David, and Kluesner, Tammy. 2010.
"Air Monitoring Network at Tonopah Test Range: Network Description and Capabilities". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1009527.
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abstractNote = {During the period April to June 2008, at the behest of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office (NNSA/NSO); the Desert Research Institute (DRI) constructed and deployed two portable environmental monitoring stations at the Tonopah Test Range (TTR) as part of the Environmental Restoration Project Soils Sub-Project. The TTR is located within the boundaries of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) near the northern edge, and covers an area of approximately 725.20 km2 (179,200 acres). The primary objective of the monitoring stations is to evaluate whether and under what conditions there is wind transport of radiological contaminants from one of the three Soil Sub-Project Corrective Action Units (CAUs) associated with Operation Roller Coaster on TTR. Operation Roller Coaster was a series of tests, conducted in 1963, designed to examine the stability and dispersal of plutonium in storage and transportation accidents. These tests did not result in any nuclear explosive yield. However, the tests did result in the dispersal of plutonium and contamination of surface soils in the surrounding area.},
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