How the Soviets Put Out Oil Well Fires by Using Nuclear Bombs
by slezyr on 4/10/2021, 10:15:01 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 4/10/2021, 12:20:09 PM
I guess at those depths ground water contamination wasn't really a problem
> 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.