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

15 pointsby hatboxreappointabout 4 years ago

2 comments

slezyrabout 4 years ago
&gt; 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.<p>This is not true.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB_(%D1%8F%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%85)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB...</a><p>&gt; Експеримент не мав успіху: закрити викид за допомогою вибуху не вдалося. Газовий факел згасили через кілька місяців стандартними методами.<p>&gt; The experiment was not successful: the runaway was not sealed with the explosion. Gas flare was exhausted with standard methods a few months after.
cybert00thabout 4 years ago
I guess at those depths ground water contamination wasn&#x27;t really a problem