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Courses are held at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) from 7:00am to 5:00pm Monday - Thursday (Daily). Attendees are eligible to attend training as a refresher every 3 years. Resident training courses are conducted on-site at the Nevada National Nuclear Site (NNSS) by CTOS.
The NNSS CTOS program develops and delivers training for emergency responders to take immediate, decisive action to prevent or respond to terrorist use of radiological or nuclear WMD, such as radiological dispersal devices and improvised nuclear devices.
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 [1] or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, [2] is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion of Nye County, Nevada, about 65 mi (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas.
The CTOS Web Campus provides DHS/FEMA certified courses regarding radiological and nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction topics to our nation's emergency responders. Some courses are for entry-level understanding and are designed to help students prepare for additional CTOS instructor led training.
The current NTTR area and the range's former areas have been used for aerial gunnery and bombing, for nuclear tests, as a proving ground and flight test area, for aircraft control and warning, and for Blue Flag, Green Flag, and Red Flag exercises.
CTOS is the nation’s premier radiological/nuclear weapons of mass destruction (WMD) counterterrorism training center. The U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) CTOS–Center for Radiological/Nuclear Training at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) has trained America’s First Responders since 1998.
Although the storied Nevada Test Site had a long history of supporting national security through full-scale atmospheric and underground nuclear testing, the last test occurred in 1992 following the nuclear weapons testing moratorium and subsequent test ban treaty.
