Project 57
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Nuclear test Project 57
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 United States
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| Test location | Nevada Test Site (Area 13) |
| Period | April 24, 1957 |
| Number of tests | 1 |
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| Previous test | Operation Redwing |
| Next test | Operation Plumbbob |
Project 57 was a nuclear test the United States in April 1957 and that on the test site Nevada was performed. The aim of the test was to test the resilience of the warheads in the event of a previous accidental detonation . For this purpose, further nuclear weapons were detonated asymmetrically in order to simulate a random detonation. An uncontrolled detonation could be prevented.
The contaminated area was first fenced in and the equipment buried in place. In 1981, the area was decontaminated by the US Department of Energy and subsequently decommissioned. Hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of earth and debris were removed from Area 13 and disposed of in a waste disposal facility at the Nevada Test Site.
Individual evidence
- ^ Projects 57, 58 and 58A. The Nuclear Weapon Archive, September 20, 1997, accessed July 5, 2012 .
- ^ Plutonium Dispersal Tests at the Nevada Test Site (DOE / NV-1046). (PDF, 819 KB) (No longer available online.) National Nuclear Security Administration, April 2010, p. 2 , archived from the original on September 27, 2011 ; Retrieved July 3, 2012 .
Coordinates: 37 ° 28 ′ N , 116 ° 13 ′ W