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Nuclear Testing Archive
The Nevada Site Office of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National
Nuclear Security Administration opened the Coordination and Information
Center (now referred to as the Nuclear Testing Archive) July 17, 1981,
to collect and make available all historical documents, records, and
data dealing with radioactive fallout from all U.S. testing of nuclear
devices.
The Nuclear Testing Archive collects and consolidates, for long-term
preservation, historical documents, records, and data. The collection
includes documentation on the detection and measurement of radioactive
fallout and the related factors resulting from nuclear test device
activities at the Nevada Test Site, TRINITY event, Pacific Proving
Grounds, and other on-continent test locations, as well as information
on the health effects of radiation, and various related scientific and
technical studies and reports.
This collection of over 370,000 documents is available to the public
through use of the Nuclear Testing Archive (Public Reading Facility).
This facility maintains more than 40,000 documents relating to Human
Radiation Experiments by our predecessor, the Atomic Energy Commission,
as well as over 270,000 documents dealing with the U.S. nuclear testing
program.
The bibliographic information for the collection at Nuclear Testing
Archive can be accessed through
OpenNet. OpenNet is DOE's bibliographic
database containing declassified and publicly available documents. It is
an automated searchable database which enables the interested
stakeholder to identify documents of interest, determine their location
within the DOE complex, and obtain ordering information.
The Nuclear Testing Archive also maintains the complete
DOE Human
Radiation Experiments collection. These documents are available in full
text retrieval through DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments site.
Normal library services, such as assistance in locating documents,
are provided at no charge. Other services, such as copying and proxy
research by staff, will be provided according to a
fee schedule.
The Nuclear Testing Archive is located at 755 East Flamingo Road, Las
Vegas, Nevada, and is open to visitors from 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except holidays.
Requests for services can be made through the following:
Mailing Address:
U.S. Department of Energy
National Nuclear Security Administration
Nevada Site Office
Nuclear Testing Archive, M/S 400
P.O. Box 98521
Las Vegas, NV 89193-8521
Phone: (702) 794-5117
Fax: (702) 794-5198
Email:
cic@nv.doe.gov
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