AKAVI containment data report

Technical Report · Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/108122· OSTI ID:108122

Stubbs, T; Heinle, R

The AKAVI event was detonated in hole U2es of the Nevada Test Site as indicated. The device had a depth-of-burial (DOB) of 494 m in the Paintbrush Tuff of area 2, about 90 m above the standing water level and 300 m above the Paleozoic formation. Stemming of the 2.44 m diameter emplacement hole followed the plan. A log of the stemming operations was maintained by Holmes & Narver. Detonation time was 07:00 PST on December 3, 1981 and 103 minutes later a surface collapse occurred leaving a crater with mean radius of 90.5 m and maximum depth of 19.5 m. No radiation arrivals were detected above ground and the AKAVI containment was considered successful.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 108122
• Report Number(s): UCRL-ID-122069; ON: DE96000332; TRN: 95:022141
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Aug 1995
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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