DOE Office of Legacy Management
Gasbuggy Site Assessment and Risk Evaluation
Report · written 1 March 2011 · released 1 March 2011
Why this matters
Project Gasbuggy detonated a 29-kiloton nuclear device deep under New Mexico in 1967 to see whether nuclear blasts could free natural gas, an atomic precursor to fracking. This assessment evaluates the radionuclides still underground and the risk to nearby gas drilling. A Cold War experiment that still constrains land use today.
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https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1110214
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The Nuclear Paper Trail
Plowshare in New Mexico: nuclear fracking, 1967.
Cite
DOE Office of Legacy Management. "Gasbuggy Site Assessment and Risk Evaluation." 1 March 2011. Released 1 March 2011. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1110214 (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0035).
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