Sedan Crater
Storax Sedan was a shallow underground nuclear test conducted in Area 10 of Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site on July 6, 1962, as part of Operation Plowshare, a program to investigate the use of nuclear explosives for mining, cratering, and other civilian purposes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nevada Test Site.
Nevada Test Site
Locality
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The Nevada National Security Sites, popularized as the Nevada Test Site until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion of Nye County, Nevada, about 65 mi northwest of the city of Las Vegas. Nevada Test Site is situated 5 miles south of Sedan Crater.
Sedan Crater
- Type: Crater
- Description: crater created by the Sedan nuclear weapons test
- Category: landform
- Location: Nye, Nevada, Southwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Sedan Crater” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فوهة سيدان”
- Bavarian: “Sedan Crater”
- Catalan: “Cràter Sedan”
- Cebuano: “Sedan Crater”
- Chinese: “薩當彈坑”
- Czech: “Sedan”
- French: “cratère Sedan”
- French: “Sedan Crater”
- German: “Sedan Crater”
- Hungarian: “Sedan-kráter”
- Polish: “Sedan”
- Russian: “Седан”
- Spanish: “Cráter Sedan”
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