From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V2 #2 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Thursday, 12 November 1992 Volume 02 : Number 002 In this issue: *BIG* boom See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Philip R. Moyer" Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 12:20:18 -0500 Subject: *BIG* boom This also is not a black project, but some of you may find it interesting. Cheers, Phil - ------- Forwarded Message A Chemical Kiloton Experiment at the Nevada Test Site The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will conduct a large chemical explosion (CE) called the Chemical Kiloton Experiment (CKE) in the Rainier Mesa area of the Nevada Test site. The explosion will involve a 30/70 Emulsion-to-ANFO blend of 1,147,000. kg (2,536,000 lb) to supply 1 kt, and is scheduled to occur approximately January 29, 1993. It will be heavily instrumented with close-in free-field, surface seismic and regional seismic measurements. The CKE is located near several DNA sponsored nuclear explosions (NEs) and will provide a unique opportunity for fundamental studies such as explosion phenomenology (e.g., CE/NE equivalence), scaling with CEs and NEs, and integration of multiple monitoring methods. This experiment will also address some critical proliferation monitoring problems such as CE masking of NEs, CEs as false alarms, CEs for regional calibration and on-site inspection. Participating organizations include LLNL, Sandia National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Phillips Laboratory, the University of Arizona and the University of Nevada, Reno. Other technical organizations are welcome to field recorders, analyze the results and contribute data to an integrated data base. Those who are interested in more details regarding this experiment should contact Don Larson of LLNL at 510-423-5162 or Fax 510- 423-4077. A meeting to discuss the CKE is planned during the Annual AGU Meeting in San Francisco. For those interested in more detail about the experiment, please check the AGU announcement bulletin board at the conven-tion center for time and location. The data from this experiment will be available via an integrated data base which is being coordinated by Eileen Vergino of LLNL. Questions regarding the data base should be directed to Eileen Vergino, 510-422-3907, Fax 510-423- 4077 or E-mail verginoes@llnl.gov. - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V2 #2 ******************************* To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "listserv@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "skunk-works-digest" in the commands above with "skunk-works". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from harbor.ecn.purdue.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).