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How the Soviets Put Out Oil Well Fires by Using Nuclear Bombs

by hatboxreappoint on 4/9/21, 10:18 PM with 2 comments

  • by slezyr on 4/10/21, 10:15 AM

    > Then again in July the same year, another runaway gas well in Ukraine was sealed with a 3.8 kiloton nuclear explosion at a depth of more than 2.4 km.

    This is not true.

    https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB...

    > Експеримент не мав успіху: закрити викид за допомогою вибуху не вдалося. Газовий факел згасили через кілька місяців стандартними методами.

    > The experiment was not successful: the runaway was not sealed with the explosion. Gas flare was exhausted with standard methods a few months after.

  • by cybert00th on 4/10/21, 12:20 PM

    I guess at those depths ground water contamination wasn't really a problem