Jackass Flats - Area 25 Nevada Test Site NV United States
Status:
destroyed
Construction Dates
Began
1962
Finished
1962
Destroyed
2012
Building Uses
- science
Structural Types
- guyed mast
Heights
Value
Source / Comments
Antenna
1527 ft
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Description - Owner: United States Department of Energy
- Constructor: Dresser-Ideco Company
- This guyed mast tower is used for scientic test research, primarily to measure raditation levels at different heights above the ground.
- This tower was originally erected at Yuca Flat - Area 4 at the Nevada Test Site in 1962.
- The tower was moved to its current location (Jackass Flats - Area 25) in 1966, because the location that it was at was being used for underground bomb testing, which posed a risk to the guyed science tower. The banning of open-air nuclear testing around that time also made it usage obsolete.
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