Nuclear in Fallon

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Looking east at the Sand Springs Range (skylined) from near US-50. The Project Shoal site is near the crest about a quarter of the way from the left edge of the photo.

Project Shoal Site

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

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