[ RadSafe ] Information on Sedan Crater

Fri Jul 9 16:56:57 CDT 2010

The most entertaining part of the Wikipedia article
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_(nuclear_test)):

"On March 2, 2005 Ellen Tauscher, a Democratic member of the U.S. House
of Representatives representing the state of California, gave
congressional testimony on the containment of nuclear testing debris,
using the Sedan test as an example of one which produced a considerable
amount of radioactive fallout. The word Sedan was incorrectly
transcribed as Sudan in the Congressional Record. Within days of the
error, the international community took notice. Sudanese officials
responded to this stating that "the Sudanese government takes this issue
seriously and with extreme importance," and China's Xinhua General News
Service even went so far as to publish an article claiming that the
Sudanese government had blamed the U.S. for raising cancer rates among
the Sudanese people.[12] Despite the U.S. embassy in Khartoum issuing a
statement regarding the error, the Sudanese Foreign Minister, Mustafa
Osman Ismail, stated that they would continue investigating."

The cancer causing power of radiation is such that it can reach out and
get people, even through a typo.

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of McClung, Danny
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 5:01 AM
To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Information on Sedan Crater

It makes an great desktop background!  Also reminds me of younger (but
not necessarily more fun) times. Thanks, Richard!

Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Ludwig E.
Feinendegen
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 3:35 AM
To: Hansen, Richard; radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Information on Sedan Crater

Thanks fiord this fascinating Photo!  Ludwig

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hansen, Richard" <HansenRG at nv.doe.gov>
To: <radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:07 PM
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Information on Sedan Crater

> Franz,
>
>
>
> Here is some more information about Sedan Crater. I have been there
many
> times, and it still impresses me when standing on the lip of this
> massive crater.
>
>
>
> Sedan Crater at the Nevada Test Site was formed on July 6, 1962, when
> the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, predecessor of the U.S. Department
of
> Energy (DOE), conducted an excavation experiment using a 104-kiloton
> thermonuclear device. The test, detonated 635 feet underground, was
part
> of a project to develop technology for earth moving projects. The
> explosion displaced about 12 million tons of earth, creating a crater
> 1,280 feet in diameter and 320 feet deep. The force of the detonation
> released seismic energy equivalent to an earthquake with a magnitude
of
> 4.75 on the Richter Scale. Today, there is a visitor stand on the lip
of
> the crater.
>
>
>
> If you look at the photo of Sedan Crater at
>
> http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/photos/photodetails.aspx?ID=799
>
> you can see the visitor stand at the bottom left side of the crater.
>
>
>
> Fact Sheets with photos at:
>
> http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/factsheets/DOENV_712.pdf
>
> http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/factsheets/DOENV_766.pdf
>
>
>
> You can view video clips of the detonation (Project Sedan Parts 1-5)
at:
>
> http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/films/testfilms.aspx
>
>
>
> Public Tours of the Nevada Test Site
>
> The U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security
Administration
> Nevada Site Office provides free general interest tours on a monthly
> basis. One of the sites on the tour is Sedan Crater. For more
> information on tours:
>
> http://www.nv.doe.gov/nts/tours.aspx
>
> http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/factsheets/DOENV_1033.pdf
>
>
>
> Emergency responders who take free (FEMA-funded) Radiological/Nuclear
> WMD courses at the Nevada Test Site also have the opportunity see the
> Sedan Crater.
>
> www.ctosnnsa.org
>
>
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rick Hansen
>
> Senior Scientist
>
> Counter Terrorism Operations Support Program
>
> National Security Technologies, LLC, for the U.S. Dept of Energy
>
> hansenrg at nv.doe.gov <mailto:hansenrg at nv.doe.gov>
>
> www.ctosnnsa.org
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
>
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of
>
> franz.schoenhofer at chello.at
>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 1:32 PM
>
> To: McClung, Danny; radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
>
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] A modest proposal
>
>
>
> Yes, Dan,
>
>
>
> Since you rather more than less invite RADSAFErs for comments, please
>
> accept mine: Being an Austrian citizen, but having been trravelled a
lot
>
> in this world I unfortunately do not know the "Sedan Crater". I have
>
> been contemplating in HIroshima, Nagasaki, on the Trinity site and
under
>
> an extensive research project on the Mururoa and Fangataufa sites
where
>
> most of the French tests have been conducted.
>
>
>
> This proposal for stopping the oil spill by nuclear bombs is
absolutely
>
> unacceptable. First of all  nuclear explosions are definitely
prohibited
>
> by international law. The USA has violated international law (e.g.
>
> Iraq), to such an extent that I do not believe that it would be
accepted
>
> in such a case,  take the public opinion into consideration..
>
>
>
> How can anybody propose such a solution? How can mass media distribute
>
> such an outstanding nonsense? How can this be distributed world-wide?
>
>
>
> But finally it seems to me that this was discussed at RADSAFE
seriously
>
> as a possibility. How can this happen within the learned community or
>
> RADSAFE???
>
>
>
> Franz
>
>
>
> (Happy to not being blocked any more on RADSAFE.)
>
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