Although no new elements (apart from einsteinium and fermium) could be detected in the nuclear test debris, and the total yields of transuranium elements were disappointingly low, these tests did provide significantly higher amounts of rare heavy isotopes than previously available in laboratories.257Fm could be recovered after the Hutch detonation. These were then used in the studies of thermal-neutron induced fission of 257Fm, and in discovery of a new fermium isotope. 258Fm. Also, the rare 250Cm isotope was synthesized in large quantities, which would have been otherwise very difficult to produce in nuclear reactors from its progenitor 249Cm – the half-life of 249Cm (64 minutes) is much too short for months-long reactor irradiations, but is very "long" on the timescale of an explosion.-->