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Corrective Action Investigation Plan for Corrective Action Unit 447: Project Shoal Area, Nevada Subsurface Site
Abstract
This Corrective Action Investigation Plan (CAIP) describes the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) continued environmental investigation of the subsurface Project Shoal Area (PSA) Corrective Action Unit (CAU) 447. The PSA is located in the Sand Springs Mountains in Churchill County, Nevada, about 48 kilometers (km) (30 miles [mi]) southeast of Fallon, Nevada. Project Shoal was part of the Vela Uniform Program which was conducted to improve the US' ability to detect, identify, and locate underground nuclear detonations. The test consisted of detonating a 12-kiloton nuclear device deep underground in granitic rock to determine whether seismic waves produced by an underground nuclear test could be differentiated from seismic waves produced by a naturally occurring earthquake. The test was a joint effort conducted by the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the US Department of Defense (DoD) in October 1963 (AEC, 1964).
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- International Technologies Corporation, Las Vegas, NV (US)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) (US)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5753
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NV-513
TRN: AH200115%%182
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC08-97NV13052
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 1 Nov 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; EXPLOSIONS; MOUNTAINS; NEVADA; NUCLEAR ENERGY; SAND; SEISMIC WAVES; US DOD
Citation Formats
DOE/NV. Corrective Action Investigation Plan for Corrective Action Unit 447: Project Shoal Area, Nevada Subsurface Site. United States: N. p., 1998.
Web. doi:10.2172/5753.
DOE/NV. Corrective Action Investigation Plan for Corrective Action Unit 447: Project Shoal Area, Nevada Subsurface Site. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5753
DOE/NV. 1998.
"Corrective Action Investigation Plan for Corrective Action Unit 447: Project Shoal Area, Nevada Subsurface Site". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5753. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5753.
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title = {Corrective Action Investigation Plan for Corrective Action Unit 447: Project Shoal Area, Nevada Subsurface Site},
author = {DOE/NV},
abstractNote = {This Corrective Action Investigation Plan (CAIP) describes the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) continued environmental investigation of the subsurface Project Shoal Area (PSA) Corrective Action Unit (CAU) 447. The PSA is located in the Sand Springs Mountains in Churchill County, Nevada, about 48 kilometers (km) (30 miles [mi]) southeast of Fallon, Nevada. Project Shoal was part of the Vela Uniform Program which was conducted to improve the US' ability to detect, identify, and locate underground nuclear detonations. The test consisted of detonating a 12-kiloton nuclear device deep underground in granitic rock to determine whether seismic waves produced by an underground nuclear test could be differentiated from seismic waves produced by a naturally occurring earthquake. The test was a joint effort conducted by the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the US Department of Defense (DoD) in October 1963 (AEC, 1964).},
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year = {Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1998},
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