Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Information Location 4021 National Parks Highway Carlsbad, New Mexico The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) was designed for the disposal of transuranic radioactive waste resulting from the research and production of nuclear weapons. It is...
Trinity Nuclear Explosion Site Information Location White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico The Trinity test was the first nuclear weapons test, which took place in July 1945 at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range. It was designed to determine whether the implosion...
South Albuquerque Works Information Location Albuquerque, New Mexico The AEC owned the South Albuquerque Works from 1951-1967 and used it to produce weapons components. It was opened in anticipation of the 1952 closing of the Buffalo Works. American Car and Foundry...
Shiprock Uranium Mill Information Location Uranium Boulevard Shiprock, Navajo Nation, New Mexico The former Uranium Mill at Shiprock processed a total of about 1.5 million short tons of uranium ore. This activity is covered under the auspices of the Radiation Exposure...
Shiprock Ore Buying Station Information Location Shiprock, Navajo Nation, New Mexico The ore buying station at Shiprock purchased uranium ore for the AEC. American Smelting and Refining Company managed and operated the Shiprock station from July 1952 to January 1954....
Sandia National Laboratories Information Location 1515 Eubank Boulevard Albuquerque, New Mexico Sandia National Laboratory originated in 1945 as the Z Division of Los Alamos, the engineering arm of the US nuclear weapons development program. Formally established as... 