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(KSL News) -- About 300 anti-nuclear demonstrators gathered at the Nevada Test site to celebrate the indefinite postponement of a massive explosion.
They feared the test blast would spread radioactivity aross the west.
The gathering was held two days after the federal government announced it was delaying the non-nuclear explosion dubbed "Divine Strake."
Anti-nuclear activists, an Indian tribe and Utah and Nevada congressional lawmakers have pressed the government to address safety concerns.
The government sought to detonate 700 tons of explosives in an experiment designed to study ground motion and shock waves.
