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Today In Aviation/Nuclear Test History - Project NERVA / KIWI Test
January 12,1965 — Area 25, Nevada Test Site
1/10:58 a.m. The Kiwi Transient Nuclear Test is conducted at Area 25 of the Nevada Test Site as part of Project NERVA.
Today In Aviation/Nuclear Test History - Project NERVA / KIWI Test
January 12,1965 — Area 25, Nevada Test Site
1/10:58 a.m. The Kiwi Transient Nuclear Test is conducted at Area 25 of the Nevada Test Site as part of Project NERVA.
2/The nuclear rocket engine code-named Kiwi is allowed to overheat until it bursts, sending fuel hurtling skyward. Deadly radioactive fuel chunks as large as 148 pounds shoot up into the sky and last as far away as a quarter mile. A radioactive cloud rises up to 2,600 feet, then
3/drifts out over Los Angeles, California, and out to sea. The AEC calls it a “safety test,” but the USSR says it violates the test ban. [Eberhart]
Sources:
Anne Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 309–310;
Sources:
Anne Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 309–310;
