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The potential for the contamination of ground water beneath the Nevada Test Site (NTS) by nuclear testing has long been recognized. The United States has conducted underground nuclear weapons testing at NTS since 1957, and a considerable amount of radioactive material has been deposited in the subsurface by this work. As a part of the U.S. Department of Energy Nevada Operations Office’s Underground Test Area Operable Unit (UGTA OP), the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has compiled an inventory of radionuclides produced by underground LLNL weapons tests from 1957 through 1992.
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Wild, J.F., Goishi, W., Meadows, J.W., Namboodiri, M.N., Smith, D.K. (1998). The LLNL Nevada Test Site Underground Radionuclide Source-Term Inventory. In: Shapiro, C.S. (eds) Atmospheric Nuclear Tests. NATO ASI Series, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03610-5_4
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