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Advance Prints of fallout totals for each of the contiguous United States from nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site from 1951 through 1970 presented in eBook format. Tables include nuclear fallout from the following shot series: Ranger, Buster-Jangle, Tumbler-Snapper, Upshot-Knothole, Teapot, Plumbbob, Hardtack II and Nougat through Bowline.Fallout data includes the major underground detonations such as Sedan and Schooner as well as the Baneberry venting accident of December, 1970.
Information was based in part upon Iodine-131 values published online on Oct 4, 1997 as part of the National Cancer Institute publication: Estimated Exposures and Thyroid Doses Received by the American People from Iodine-131 in Fallout following the Nevada Atmospheric Nuclear Bomb tests.These values were evaluated using total fallout values for individual nuclear tests found in the 1981 Livermore Laboratory publication, Results of Calculations of External Gamma Radiation Exposure Rates from Fallout and the Related Radionuclide Compositions: Operations Ranger, Buster-Jangle, Tumbler and Snapper, Upshot-Knothole, Teapot, Plumbbob, Hardtack II (1958), Nougat through Bowline, and the nuclear test Baneberry.
The tables found in this series of books offer the widest range of fallout values currently available to the public.For example, the range of values for the county of Spokane WA extends from 13.6 nCi/sq meter (28 April 1955 on the 14th day of shot TP-9 (code-named MET) to a high of 12,278.4 nCi/sq meter (26 July, 1957) from the third day of shot PB-6 (from shots KEPLER AND OWENS.)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Elko is a city in Elko County, Nevada, United States. The population was 16,980 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Elko County. It straddles the Humboldt River. Elko is the principal city of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers Elko and Eureka counties and had a combined population of 46,942 at the 2000 census. It is home to Great Basin College. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on July 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1122 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Speaking Through the Aspens: Basque Tree Cavings in California and Nevada. (Geographical Reviews). (book review)
Author: Nathan F. Sayre
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2001
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 91Issue: 3Page: 604(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Reno is the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The city has a population of 217,091 (approx) and is the fourth most populous city in Nevada.[citation needed] Reno sits in a high desert valley at the foot of the Sierras. Reno borders Sparks, a city with approximately 90,000. Most call the metro area the "Truckee Meadows" and it has a population of about 310,000. Reno, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World", is famous for its casinos, and is the birthplace of the gaming corporation Harrah's Entertainment. City residents are called "Reno-ites". ... Read more

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Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch- gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, onthe border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada.When completed in 1936, it was both the world's largestelectric-power generating station and the world's largestconcrete structure. It was surpassed in both these respectsby the Grand Coulee Dam in 1945. It is currently theworld's 35th-largest hydroelectric generating station. This dam, located 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas,Nevada, is named after Herbert Hoover, who played aninstrumental role in its construction, first as theSecretary of Commerce, and then later, as the President ofthe United States. Construction began in 1931, and wascompleted in 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule.The dam and the power plant are operated by the Bureau ofReclamation of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Listedon the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, HooverDam was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wadsworth is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The population was 881 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Reno-Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area.According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.7 square miles (9.6 km²), all of it land.As of the census of 2000, there were 881 people, 328 households, and 225 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 237.7 people per square mile (91.7/km²). There were 360 housing units at an average density of 97.1/sq mi (37.5/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 28.94% White, 0.11% African American, 64.81% Native American, 0.23% Asian, 3.75% from other races, and 2.16% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12.03% of the population. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! LyonCounty is a county located in the U.S. state ofNevada. As of the 2000 census, the population was34,501. Its county seat is Yerington. Lyon Countywas one of the nine original counties created in1861. It was named after General Nathaniel Lyon whodied in the Civil War in Missouriin 1861. Itsfirst County Seat was Dayton, which had just changedits name from Nevada City in 1862, which had beencalled Chinatown before that. After the Dayton CourtHouse burned down in 1909, the seat was moved toYerington in 1911. There were stories that it wasnamed for Captain Robert Lyon, a survivor of thePyramid Lake War in 1860, but Nevada State Archivesstaff discovered a county seal with the picture ofthe Civil War general and settled the conflict. ... Read more

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The transport of radionuclides in the environment is a major environmental issue that needs to be understood when dealing with nuclear waste.The Nevada Test Site (NTS) was designated as the United States? nuclear testing area and is the site of over 900 nuclear detonations.This experiment, conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, models radionuclide migration in rock core obtained from NTS.In short, a solution modeling the groundwater (in mineral composition and pH) from NTS was flowed over the rock core.The cores were examined by alpha-radiography, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) in order to determine the location of the radionuclides remaining on the rock surface.The actinides were found to associate heavily with iron and manganese-rich minerals. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Truckee is an incorporated town in Nevada County, California, United States. The population was 13,864 at the 2000 census. Truckee was named after a Paiute chief. His assumed Paiute name was Tru-ki-zo. He was the father of Chief Winnemucca and grandfather of Sarah Winnemucca. The first people who came to cross the Sierra Nevada encountered his tribe. The friendly Chief rode toward them yelling "Tro-kay!", which is Paiute for "Everything is all right". The settlers assumed he was yelling his name. Chief Truckee later served as a guide for John C. Frémont. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wonder, Nevada, was a town in Churchill County, Nevada, approximately 39 mi (63 km) miles east of Fallon at an elevation of 5,853 ft (1,784 m). Today Wonder is a deserted ghost town. Wonder was established in May 1906 when prospectors from the town of Fairview discovered rich quartz veins in a dry wash north of Chalk Mountain. As was typical of the era of the 'second' silver rush in Nevada, hundreds of people soon flocked to the site, and the town of Wonder was born. A newspaper, the Wonder Mining News, began delivering issues by August, and soon thereafter the town had its own post office. By the fall of 1906 Wonder was going full-bore; it had a stage line connecting it to both Fairview and Fallon, and the usual assortment of stores, assay offices, freight depot, restaurants, hotels, boarding houses, and- of course- saloons. Several mining concerns were formed in Wonder, but the highest yield operation was the Nevada Wonder Mining Company. ... Read more

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