National Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas - Travel Thru History
The National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada is only minutes from the strip, but it houses the most interesting collection of nuclear memorabilia that documents atomic testing in Nevada. The museum is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institute.
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Outdoor Nevada S3 Ep9 Clip | National Atomic Testing Museum
John Burke experiences the impact of the Atomic Age in Nevada.
Gaetano Benza speaking at the National Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, October, 2015
This is one of a series of videos recorded October 24 - October 25, 2015 at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The occasion was the Atomic Veterans Reunion. (Benza's appearance was an added bonus.)
The ship shown in the thumbnail is the Aquitania, which Benza took from America to England.
Video by Ace Hoffman.
Outdoor Nevada S3 Ep9 | Our Radioactive History
We visit the National Atomic Testing Museum and take a drive out to the Nevada National Security Site. Then to top off the day, we grab a drink at the historic Atomic Liquors in Downtown Las Vegas.
National Atomic Testing Museum Dance off 2
National Atomic Testing Museum's entry in to the 2015 Museum Dance-Off competition.
The video was filmed inside the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, NV, using staff, visitors, docents, and the rare board member. We had such a BLAST working on this, and we hope you enjoy it!
The music used is:
Tom Lehrer's We Will All Go Together When We Go
Imagine Dragon's Radioactive
Leo Bud Feurt Speaking at the National Atomic Testing Museum (Oct 2015)
This is one of a series of videos recorded October 24 - October 25, 2015 at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The occasion was the Atomic Veterans Reunion.
Bud Feurt is the California Commander of the National Association of Atomic Vets.
Video by Ace Hoffman. Leo Bud Feurt speaking at the National Atomic Testing Museum October 2015
Johnston Atoll
also see: Bud Hinshaw speaking at the National Atomic Testing Museum Las Vegas Nevada, October 2015
Al Tseu speaking at the National Atomic Testing Museum Atomic Veterans Reunion October, 2015 (part 1 of 2)
Al Tseu Oral History at the National Atomic Testing Museum Las Vegas Nevada October 2015 (2 of 2)
Peter Livingston at the National Atomic Testing Museum Atomic Veterans Reunion October 2015
Al Gettier, Larrie Adams at the National Atomic Testing Museum Las Vegas Nevada, October 2015
Wally Lyons speaking at the National Atomic Testing Museum Las Vegas Nevada, October 2015
Roger Stenerson speaking at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, October, 2015
Gaetano Benza speaking at the National Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, October, 2015
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Tom Campbell speaking for Graham Nash at NRC hearing August 5th, 2015
Jill Zamek, Mothers for Peace, speaking at NRC hearing August 5th, 2015
Marni Madga speaking at Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing August 5th, 2015
Paula Ash speaking for Jackson Browne at Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing August 5th, 2015
Diane Kolinski speaking for Bonnie Raitt at Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing August 5th, 2015
Jill Zamek speaking at Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing August 5th, 2015
Harvey Wasserman speaking at Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing August 5th, 2015
Ace Hoffman speaking at Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing August 5th, 2015
Rochelle Becker speaking at Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing August 5th, 2015
John Geesman speaking at Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing August 5th, 2015
David Crosby speaking at Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing August 5th, 2015
Sharon Hoffman speaking at Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing August 5th, 2015
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PWR and BWR nuclear power plant animations plus SanO steam generators (San Onofre)
Operating Nuclear Power Plants: So much more dangerous than a closed one! Hear a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) official and a Southern California Edison (SCE) Vice President exclaim over and over (at least 20 times!) that spent fuel isn't nearly as hazardous as an operating nuclear reactor. They're right, but don't think things are safe after closure! Things are just safer.
Oral History with Atomic Veteran Milton Klorman
National Atomic Testing Museum E7, Las Vegas NV, Image slideshow of nuclear missiles, bombs & more!
In our weekend's vlog, witness the awesome destructive power of the Nuke, as we first take a look into images of Nevadan nuclear sites, weapons and explosions! Vid timeline:
(0:01) Intro.
(0:20) Nedava chosen for nuclear testing sites.
(1:29) Nuclear missiles, bombs and explosions!
(3:10) Additional images.
Note: As taking videos on the museum was not allowed, this is strictly an image vid.
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Vegas - Atomic Testing Museum
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Former US Marine Rudy Merino describes atomic blast test in 1957 Nevada, firsthand account.
Rudy Merino, 1938-2018, was a US Marine Clerk from 1956 to 1959. He unknowingly volunteered for an Atomic test near Las Vegas, Nevada. This is a short edit of his firsthand account. Apologies for the audio quality, old pre digital camera, shot in 2002.
EP#43: KABOOM! The National Atomic Testing Museum
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It's a little-known fact that just over 60 miles away from the glitz & glamour of the Las Vegas Strip, the US government used to test Atomic Weapons!
Just as the Cold War was starting to heat up, the US Department of Energy began the testing of Nuclear Bombs in the Nevada desert. The blasts would light up the early morning sky and the mushroom clouds could be seen from miles away on the rooftops of the downtown hotels.
Helping to keep this history alive is one of my favourite attractions, The National Atomic Testing Museum.
My guest on this episode is Michael Hall, the museum's Executive Director. Michael and I discussed the United States' Atomic Testing program, the effects it had on Las Vegas as well as the incredible exhibits on display at the museum.
For tickets and information on The National Atomic Testing Museum visit their website & be sure to check them out on Twitter and Instagram.
Also in this episode, Vegas News You Can Use:
- Two big restaurants shut down in Mandalay Bay & The Mirage
- What might be missing from the new Virgin Hotel Las Vegas?
- And Gordon Ramsay gets set to open ANOTHER restaurant on The Strip
And don't forget: I want your feedback...be sure to fill out the Audience Survey!
A Visit to the Nevada State Museum in Las Vegas
Both a natural history and social history museum, the Nevada State Museum at the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas has a wide variety of exhibits covering geology, paleontology, archeology, and contemporary (19th-21st century) human history.
Recorded on Sunday, June 17, 2012.
Everything You Wanted to Know about Atomic Testing But...
From the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, NV, Nuclear Guy answers all your pressing questions about atomic energy. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Does the government really study aliens at Area 51?
Alan Palmer, executive director and CEO of the National Atomic Testing Museum explains what we know about the government's secret work at Area 51 in Nevada.
Area 51 is the unofficial name for a United States military installation popular in UFO folklore. UFO stands for unidentified flying object. Some people think UFO's are alien spacecraft. Area 51 is about 85 miles (137 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas. It lies within the Nevada Test and Training Range, a U.S. Air Force installation. Government officials are reluctant to discuss Area 51. The Air Force has stated only that some classified activities have taken place nearby. Some published accounts hold that top-secret aircraft, such as spy planes, were developed at Area 51. Such planes fly faster than normal planes and have unusual shapes. These aircraft may account for some UFO reports. Such reports, together with the installation's secrecy, have led to a number of conspiracy theories about Area 51. A popular one claims that Area 51 houses the wreckage—and possibly the alien crew—of a spacecraft that supposedly crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.
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Nuclear Fire Near Las Vegas Update 10/25/15
New Plume Graph Data from October 18, 2015 Nevada Nuclear Waste Dump Fire
NV Radioactive Waste Dump Fire (Oct 2015)
It could be some time before officials know what caused a fire at a low-level radioactive waste dump in Nye County that shut down a 140-mile stretch of Nevada's main north-south highway for almost 24 hours.
U.S. HWY 95 reopened to traffic Mon evening after tests conducted from the air and on the ground showed no signs of radioactive contamination from the blaze that broke out Sunday afternoon at the US Ecology waste site about 110 miles NW of Las Vegas.
In a conference call Monday night, State Fire Marshal Chief Peter Mulvihill said investigators would be taking a close and methodical look at the site once it is safe to go down there.
He said it's still too early to know what might have sparked the fire, which was reported about 1 pm Sunday in one of the site's low-level radioactive waste disposal trenches and was allowed to burn itself out over the course of about 12 hours.
Concerns about possible contamination from the fire prompted authorities to cancel school in the nearest town of Beatty and close US 95 from state Route 160, about 70 milesbNW of Las Vegas, to the Nye County seat of Tonopah, 210 miles NW of Las Vegas, about 7 pm Sun
US Ecology officials said they created an exclusion zone around the facility at the request of state regulators, but storms in the area Sunday night delayed efforts to survey the site from the air.
Federal aircraft that can detect radioactive particles conducted flights Monday morning, followed by a detection team on the ground that started in Beatty, 10 miles to the north, and worked its way to the waste facility.
Once it was determined that the fire was out and the surrounding area was safe from radioactive contamination, the highway was reopened about 5:30 p.m. Monday, releasing a flood of vehicles that had been trapped overnight in Beatty.
Mike Harmon, chief of the local volunteer fire department, said all of the motel rooms in town were filled with stranded travelers, and a line of vehicles a half-mile long was waiting at the road block for the highway to reopen.
He guessed there were 30 to 40 tractor-trailers parked along the road and packed into various parking lots in the town of about 1,000 people.
It's pretty full, Harmon said.
Before the fire, flooding on roads throughout the area had already prompted the Nye County School District to cancel classes Monday in Amargosa Valley, about 20 miles south of US Ecology. The two public schools in Beatty were closed Monday as a precautionary response to the fire, said Cameron McRae, the district's director of transportation, maintenance and operations.
All Nye County schools were expected to open Tuesday.
The US Ecology site has served as a dump for low-level radioactive waste and other hazardous materials since the early 1960s.
From 1983 to 1992, solid low-level radioactive waste primarily from hospitals and university research labs was buried there in dirt-covered trenches. It came from Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico, the states that make up the Rocky Mountain Low-Level Radioactive Waste Board compact, according to Leonard Slosky, the board's executive director.
US Ecology stopped accepting radioactive waste in 1992, but it still takes in about 100,000 tons of hazardous waste per year from out-of-state and in-state sources.
A fire in one of the disposal trenches or in a facility near them would be very unusual because there are supposed to be no ignition sources in or around the waste, Slosky said.
Mulvihill said the fire burned a 40-to-50-foot area of the 40-acre site on state-owned land.
As part of their investigation, state officials said they will be looking at the overall stability of the more than 50-year-old dump.
The fire prompted a coordinated emergency response from Nye County and from Nevada's Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Public Safety, Highway Patrol, State Fire Marshal, National Guard, Department of Transportation, and Division of Environment Protection.
The U.S. EPA also sent an on-scene coordinator to the site.
In 2010, the EPA fined US Ecology nearly $500,000 for 18 hazardous waste violations.
Reports on the violations said that on at least two occasions operators observed smoke coming from a soils decontamination heating unit that resulted in the release of hazardous compounds into the air.
Inspectors also noted 6 spills, leaks or other uncontrolled PCB discharges between 2006 and 2008 that weren't reported as required by law, according to an EPA news release in 2010.
PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, are toxic, organic pollutants that persist in the environment. They were once widely used in electrical transformers and capacitors but are no longer produced in the USA
By Henry Brean and Keith Rogers
LV Review-Journal
Update #3 Nevada Radioactive Waste Facility Fire Close to Las Vegas - October 2015
Operation Atom Bomb in Las Vegas Desert
The Nevada National Security Site[1] (NNSS), previously the Nevada Test Site (NTS), is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in southeastern Nye County, Nevada, about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas. Formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds, the site was established on 11 January 1951 for the testing of nuclear devices, covering approximately 1,360 square miles (3,500 km2) of desert and mountainous terrain. Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a 1-kiloton-of-TNT (4.2 TJ) bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat on 27 January 1951. Many of the iconic images of the nuclear era come from the NTS.
During the 1950s, the mushroom clouds from the 100 atmospheric tests could be seen for almost 100 mi (160 km). The city of Las Vegas experienced noticeable seismic effects, and the distant mushroom clouds, which could be seen from the downtown hotels, became tourist attractions. St. George, Utah, received the brunt of the fallout of above-ground nuclear testing in the Yucca Flats/Nevada Test Site. Winds routinely carried the fallout of these tests directly through St. George and southern Utah. Marked increases in cancers, such as leukemia, lymphoma, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, bone cancer, brain tumors, and gastrointestinal tract cancers, were reported from the mid-1950s through 1980. The vast majority of nuclear tests, 828 in all, were underground.
This film shows soldiers arriving and being deployed to watch the test. Then taking part in drills afterward. They were human guinea pigs.
Later they go into Las Vegas and we see the neon of the 1950s.
The Army gambled with their lives and they gambled with their meager earnings.
EPS 25
Travel Thru History: Las Vegas, Nevada (Accessible Preview)
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In this episode, viewers travel to the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada to catch a glimpse of the city’s history through its art and architecture. Next on the agenda is a stop at the National Atomic Testing Museum. Museum staff explain the history of atomic testing in Las Vegas. Today, Las Vegas is known as an entertainment destination for travelers. Part of the “Travel Thru History” series.
Spirit of Nevada - Atomic testing
Learn how Nevada became America’s primary nuclear weapons test location at the National Atomic Testing Museum. From the Cold War to the Global War on Terror, the museum highlights the history of atomic testing and its relevance to national security and international stability .
How can the United States thwart a ballistic missile nuclear attack?
(Keith Rogers/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
HISTORICAL PLACES OF NEVADA STATE,U S A IN GOOGLE EARTH PART ONE ( 1/2 )
HISTORICAL PLACES OF NEVADA STATE,U S A PART ONE (1/2)
1. NEVADA STATE CAPITOL,CARSON CITY 39° 9'49.47N 119°45'57.40W
2. CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH,HENDERSON 36° 4'49.63N 115° 2'18.24W
3. ADVENTUREDOME,LAS VEGAS 36° 8'16.58N 115° 9'58.20W
4. FLY GEYSER,GERLACH 40°51′34″N 119°19′55″W
5. LDS TEMPLE,SUNRISE MANOR 36°10'28.77N 115° 1'12.30W
6. ST.AUGUSTINE'S CHURCH,AUSTIN 39°29'35.33N 117° 4'14.33W
7. NEWYORK SKYSCAPERS REPLICA,LAS VEGAS 36° 6'7.79N 115°10'27.64W
8. JEFF DEVIS PEAK & WHEELER PEAK,BAKER 38°59'13.87N 114°18'27.72W
9. STONE ARCH,GOLDFIELD 37°42'36.55N 117°14'21.77W
10. HOLY REDEEMER,LAS VEGAS 36° 5'47.91N 115°10'11.24W
11. AREA 51,SAN ANTONIO 37°14'58.73N 115°48'20.34W
12. ATOMIC TESTING MUSEUM,LAS VEGAS 36° 6'50.20N 115° 8'54.24W
13. KFC LOGO,ALAMO 37°38'46.52N 115°45'2.24W
14. GIANT GUITAR,PARADISE 36° 6'30.86N 115° 9'12.97W
15. BUFFALO POOL,PRIMM 35°36'48.99N 115°23'4.49W
16. RED ROCK CANYON,LAS VEGAS 36°12'45.94N 115°27'11.23W
17. TRIANGLE TARGET,TONOPAH 37°40'0.90N 116° 1'32.91W
18. NEON MUSEUM,LAS VEGAS 36°10'36.12N 115° 8'7.14W
19. DEVIL'S THROAT SINK HOLE,OVERTON 36°25'38.96N 114° 8'57.32W
20. SWIMMING POOL SHELLS,HENDERSON 36° 3'23.23N 115° 0'7.55W
21. NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM,RENO 39°31'33.25N 119°48'31.26W
22. EIFFEL TOWER REPLICA,LAS VEGAS 36° 6'44.87N 115°10'19.61W