Nuclear explosion 409 Kristall data

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Country
USSR
Operation
1974
Date
1974-10-02
Yield
2.00 kT

USSR - 1974 - 409 Kristall

Designed to build a dam on the Deldyn River; was to be first of 8 but project was scrubbed by high radioactivity. Original crater covered with dirt from mine nearby.

Base info

Location

Russia - 2.00 kT out of 877 kT

0.2%

Purposes

Industrial - 2.00 kT out of 1.3 MT

0.2%

Earthmoving - 2.00 kT out of 191 kT

1.0%

Deliveries

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