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A Premier National Security Resource. The NNSS is an enterprise of multi-mission, high-hazard experimentation facilities delivering technical and service solutions in support of national security. Learn more about the NNSS.
The Nevada National Security Sites (NNSS), part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), is an enterprise of special-purpose, multi-mission, high-hazard experimentation facilities delivering technical and service solutions in partnership with the National Laboratories.
Currently, NNSS is welcoming only official visitors to its facilities. Official visitors are those who have been invited by an NNSS employee. It is the host’s responsibility to coordinate any necessary badging or access permission and arrange to meet guests at a designated location.
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion of Nye County, Nevada, about 65 mi (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas.
Apr 23, 2024 · The Nevada National Security Sites (NNSS) was used from 1951 to 1992 to conduct a total of 100 atmospheric and 828 underground nuclear weapons tests. As a result, some groundwater, surface soils, and industrial facilities were contaminated on the NNSS and the surrounding Nevada Test and Training Range.
May 16, 2024 · WASHINGTON – On the evening of May 14, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration successfully executed a subcritical experiment in the Principal Underground Laboratory for Subcritical Experimentation (PULSE) facility at the Nevada National Security Site.
The Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) was used from 1951 to 1992 to conduct a total of 100 atmospheric and 828 underground nuclear weapons tests.
Dec 12, 2023 · Nevada National Security Site (NV) – The NNSS (formerly the Nevada Test site) is an extensive outdoor laboratory and national experiment center located in southern Nevada, about 75 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Activities at the site include preparations for the disposition of damaged nuclear weapons, subcritical experiments, criticality ...
Apr 28, 2023 · Because of its remote location and enormous footprint, NNSS can safely host nuclear weapons–related experiments that can’t be done anywhere else. Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia national laboratories each conduct, and often collaborate on, a great deal of national security work in Nevada.
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