Yucca Flat is a closed desert drainage basin, one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada Test Site, and is divided into nine test sections: Areas 1 through 4 and 6 through 10. Yucca Flat is located at the eastern edge of NTS, about ten miles north of Frenchman Flat, and 65 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada. Yucca Flat was the site for 739 nucle…Yucca Flat is a closed desert drainage basin, one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada Test Site, and is divided into nine test sections: Areas 1 through 4 and 6 through 10. Yucca Flat is located at the eastern edge of NTS, about ten miles north of Frenchman Flat, and 65 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada. Yucca Flat was the site for 739 nuclear tests – nearly four of every five tests carried out at the NTS.
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