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Cannikin environmental statement (1971)
| Author | AEC |
| Date | April 1971 |
| Classification | 3.01.3.12/01 (UNITED STATES - PROLIFERATION POLICY - NUCLEAR WEAPONS & TESTS) |
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From the publication:
UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT--CANNIKIN APRIL 1971 Environmental Impact--Summary Statement This Environmental Statement--CANNIKIN is being issued by the Atomic Energy Commission toward implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act, Section 102(2)(C) and the Council on Environmental Quality Guidelines, in connection with AEC's proposed administrative action to conduct an underground nuclear test called CANNIKIN at Amchitka, Alaska. In June 1970, a draft environmental statement was issued for comment to federal, state, and local agencies having jurisdictional authority or special expertise. Notice of the availability of the draft environmental statement was made in the Federal Register and copies were made available to all requestors. Comments on the draft statement were received from the Department of the Interior, Department of Defense, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Department of State, and Department of Transportation. The State of Hawaii also submitted comments. Comments received to date on the draft statement are attached and have been accommodated in the text of the final environmental statement. CANNIKIN is a proposed underground nuclear test of less than five megatons to be fired about 6,000 feet underground in a fully stemmed hole on Amchitka Island, Alaska, in the autumn of 1971 and is a vital part of the U.S. weapons development program. Preparatory to CANNIKIN, a test called MILROW, which had a yield of about one megaton, was conducted on Amchitka on October 2, 1969, to obtain physical and biological effects data. * MILROW did not have any important long- term impact on the surface environment. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT--ADVERSE EFFECTS Similar to MILROW, only minimal long-term impact on the environment is anticipated from CANNIKIN. Radioactivity and beat will be trapped deep underground. The geology, the depth of burst, and stemming for CANNIKIN are designed to assure successful containment of the radioactivity underground, most of which will be trapped in a matrix of glasslike material formed from the condensed and solidified rock gases. Untrapped radioactivity will tend to remain at the detonation point *Reference: "Physical and Biological Effects, MILROW Event," USAEC NV0-79, December 1970. Available from the National Technical Information Service, Department of Commerce, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Price: $3.00.
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