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Yucca Mountain Repository

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

BREN Tower

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

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Project Faultless Site

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

10 miles from Nye

Tonopah, Nevada

Lunar Crater

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

13 miles from Nye

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