DOE Marks Cleanup First at Former Plutonium Test Site in Nevada

摘要

The Energy Department said Thursday it has marked a major milestone on cleanup of the Double Tracks plutoniumrndispersal site in Nevada, which after 20 years the agency has cleaned up to U.S. Air Force standards.rnDouble Tracks, located north of DOE’s Nevada National Security Site on the Nevada Test and Training Range, was onernof four a 1963 Operation Roller Coaster plutonium dispersion tests conducted by the Pentagon, the now-defunct AtomicrnEnergy Commission, and the United Kingdom.