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Posted on 5/30/10 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 5/30/10 at 1:29 pm
...a nuclear device detonation next to the well-head.
Collapses the well, and fuses the rock to prevent other leaks?
Collapses the well, and fuses the rock to prevent other leaks?
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Posted on 5/30/10 at 1:34 pm to udtiger
There isn't much rock in deepwater. It's mostly mud. Not sure how well mud would fuse. I think they would only be successful in making the GOM deeper at that particular spot and would likely end up with a cavern releasing radioactive oil and gas.
Posted on 5/30/10 at 1:37 pm to redstick13
The US tried using nuclear devices in the oil and gas industry in the 60's and 70's. You an research Operation Plowshare and pull up information.
Posted on 5/30/10 at 1:59 pm to redstick13
Sedan crater 
Was part of that operation, not the biggest explosion though, Russia beat it,
Lots of Nukes. Its cool to take Google earth and then look at all the places on the globe where Bombs went off. I was shocked to see two in Mississippi.
Was part of that operation, not the biggest explosion though, Russia beat it,
Lots of Nukes. Its cool to take Google earth and then look at all the places on the globe where Bombs went off. I was shocked to see two in Mississippi.
Posted on 5/30/10 at 2:03 pm to redstick13
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at that particular spot and would likely end up with a cavern releasing radioactive oil and gas.
If that were to occur we might have a whole new slew of Marvel superheroes...
Posted on 5/30/10 at 2:05 pm to redstick13
Actually I sometimes deal with radioactive metering devices, used in getting accurate measurements of the amount of oil coming from a well.
A radioactive source is used to run this:
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A radioactive source is used to run this:
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Posted on 5/30/10 at 2:13 pm to TJG210
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Sedan crater
Was part of that operation, not the biggest explosion though, Russia beat it,
Yea. One of the sites is about 6 miles from my house in Colorado. It didn't work so well for the government.
Posted on 5/30/10 at 2:16 pm to TJG210
How radioactive?
A radioactive source is used in smoke alarms, but it is mostly harmless.
There are so many positive uses of Radioactive material, but the Three mile incident scared the public away.
A radioactive source is used in smoke alarms, but it is mostly harmless.
There are so many positive uses of Radioactive material, but the Three mile incident scared the public away.
Posted on 5/30/10 at 2:18 pm to redstick13
They even did one in Carlsbad in a cavern, 1+1=?
That's crazy, and supposedly they were very close to using five Hydrogen bombs to make a harbor in Alaska.
I saw the project listed 2 or three in Colorado as well, all 30 mega-ton or higher.
That's crazy, and supposedly they were very close to using five Hydrogen bombs to make a harbor in Alaska.
I saw the project listed 2 or three in Colorado as well, all 30 mega-ton or higher.
Posted on 5/30/10 at 2:19 pm to Napoleon
I don't believe there is much radioactivity at all now. When they set it off in 1969 they ended up with some pretty radioactive natural gas that could not be used.
Posted on 5/30/10 at 2:20 pm to redstick13
After the test, the natural gas that was extracted was determined to be too radioactive to be sold commercially. The surface of the site began to be cleaned up by the Department of Energy in the 1970s, and was completed in 1998. A buffer zone put in place by the state of Colorado still exists around the area. A January 2005 report by the DOE stated that radioactivity levels were normal at the surface and in groundwater, though a later report due in 2007 is expected to more fully explore if there is subsurface contamination and whether or not radioactivity is still spreading outward from the blast site itself.
Posted on 5/30/10 at 2:24 pm to redstick13
They had some strange theories on using it for Oil and gas production. If radioactivity wasn't an issue than many of the ideas would have worked great and would probably be in use today. The problem is radioactivity is the issue. I don't get if they didn't understand that then or just downplayed its risks. Like the possible use of 22 bombs in California for freeway and rail expansion.
That was all hypothetical, in reality they did set of the 103MT bomb that caused that big crater, which on video made a 12,000 ft smoke plume which carried radioactive dust. Some say it came as far east as the Mississippi river.
That was all hypothetical, in reality they did set of the 103MT bomb that caused that big crater, which on video made a 12,000 ft smoke plume which carried radioactive dust. Some say it came as far east as the Mississippi river.
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Posted on 5/30/10 at 2:41 pm to Napoleon
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How radioactive?
Not exactly sure of how radioactive.....I do know it is a pain in the arse getting the source into the states., and a ton of regulatory paperwork that has to be filled out.
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