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1998 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Some Characteristics of Atmospheric Nuclear Tests at the USSR Test Sites (1949–1962)
Authors : Anatoly Matushchenko, Alexander Chernushev, Konstantin Kharitonov, Victor Mikhailov, Georgy Tsyrkov, Sergey Zelentsov, Gennady Zolotukhin
Published in: Atmospheric Nuclear Tests
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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209 nuclear tests were conducted in the atmosphere, on the ground and under water (Table 1) at two USSR test sites — Semipalatinsk and Northern (Novaya Zemlya). The total energy yield of the tested nuclear devices was ~246 Mt of TNT equivalent, however, after the redistribution their share corresponded to 2.7% and 97.3%, respectively (Table 2).