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The Maps Page

Links to maps that illustrate radioactive waste transportation, radoactivity in the environment, weapons testing and sites where you can build your own environmental maps.

Yucca Maps

WIPP Maps

WIPP Map at CCNS.

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American FactFinder is a new data access and dissemination system that provides useful facts and information about your community, economy, and society. The system will find and retrieve the information you need from some of the Census Bureau's largest data sets, including: 1990 Decennial Census Detailed Files, American Community Survey Summary Tables, Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal Summary Files, and 1997 Economic Census Summary Files.
Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental and Test Ranges (CFMETR) at Nanoose Bay, British Columbia, CANADA. most comprehensive underwater torpedo testing range of its kind in the world. It is regularly visited by nuclear-powered ships and submarines from the United States to develop and test new weapons.
Deadly Nuclear Radiation Hazards USA includes a database which lists the following:

  • All nuclear reactors (power, research, and DOE ) active, shutdown, and under construction, including nuclear powered ships
  • All NRC and Agreement States "Broad" Licensees
  • All contaminated sites currently identified by the DOE, NRC and EPA
  • All licensees for significant quantities of critical mass material
  • All licensees for storage, transportation, and disposal of radioactive material including nuclear laundries, and incinerators
  • All known dumpsites including underwater
  • All off-site nuclear weapons tests
  • All former uranium mines, mills,and processing facilities
  • All major ports of entry
  • All known nuclear weapons deployments
  • All known nuclear weapon production complex facilities.
  • All known sites of Depleted Uranium Contamination.
  • All irradiators greater than 10,008 curies

EPA Map of Radon Zones
Green MapSystem linking eco-resources within cities.
Interactive Nuke Maps at CNN.
Known Uranium Resources
Major Transportation Facilities of the United States
Mapcruzin create an environmental atlas, as well as look at environmental toxics maps.
Map of Utah, Nevada and Envirocare
Maps of the Atomic Age Maps on Demand at EPA. Internet based mapping application that generates maps to display environmental information for the entire United States. MOD accesses data available through the Envirofacts Data Warehouse.
National Atlas of the United States
Nuclear Blast Mapper Supply Blast Mapper with any location, and it will display a map that shows a nuclear weapon's "zones of destruction" with that location at the center. You can even choose between a relatively small detonation at earth's surface, which will produce substantial fallout, and an especially destructive large detonation at high altitude.
Nuclear Reactor Map of the World
Radiometric Maps of Greece after Chernobyl.
State Factsheets DOE Cleanup Maps.
Tiger Build maps based on Census and USGS data.  
U.S. Plutonium Power Plants Map
World Map of Plutonium Air Shipment Routes


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