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Nevada Test Site, Super Kukla Facility, Area 27, Rock Valley, South of Cane Spring Road, Mercury, Nye County, NV
Summary
Significance: The Super Kukla facility, housing a small prompt burst reactor, is significant for its role in the United States defense program at the Nevada Test Site during the 1960s and 1970s. It was employed to evaluate the response of components and materials used in nuclear explosive devices to neutron burst exposure prior to the actual testing of such devices.
Survey number: HAER NV-31
Building/structure dates: 1963-1968 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1979 Subsequent Work
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Norman Engineering Company
Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Company
U.S. Department of Energy
Desert Research Institute, contractor
Carey & Comany, Inc., Architects, contractor
Smith, Richard, photographer
Drollinger, Harold, historian
Beck, Colleen M, historian
Goldberg, Nancy, historian
Location
mercury, 36.66051, -115.99447
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
