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Filtering by: Committee Member Wood, Terence M. Subject Cesium -- Isotopes -- Environmental aspects -- Utah

A study of residual Cesium 137 contamination in southwestern Utah soil following the nuclear weapons tests at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950's and 1960's

Creator:

Bentley, R. Blair

Abstract:

The Nevada Test Site (NTS) was the location for at least 100 above ground Nuclear Weapons tests during the 1950's and early 1960's. Radioactive fallout from these tests spread to many areas north and west of the NTS. According to estimates from the NCI and DOE, Washington County, Utah was...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

the United States (see figure 2.) As shown, over 700Bq /m^2 of Cesium 137 were estimated to have