Sandia National Laboratories Tonopah Test Range, Tonopah, Nevada: 1983 environmental summary

Technical Report · Sat Mar 31 23:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6851906

Millard, G C; Lathrop, L W

The Tonopah Test Range is located about 160 air miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada, and covers 525 square miles within the Nellis Air Force Base Bombing and Gunnery Range. The range is used for various DOE tests involving high and low altitude projectiles. Operations that affect the environment are mainly road construction, preparation of instrumentation sites, and disturbance of the terrain from projectile impacts. Monitoring of the test range is done annually by the US Environmental Protection Agency to supplement Sandia's monitoring effort. Monitoring results indicate that test range operations do not adversely affect the offsite environment or the public. 7 references.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 6851906
• Report Number(s): SAND-84-0430; ON: DE84011152
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
CONSTRUCTION
DOSES
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
HUMAN POPULATIONS
MONITORING
OPERATION
POPULATIONS
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION MONITORING
TEST FACILITIES
TONOPAH TEST RANGE