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USA had 2 projects to use nuclear bombs for fracking natural gas

U.S. tried fracking for gas using nuclear bombs — Engineer: “I think it’s awesome” — Drilling to now be allowed within half-mile of blast site? (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/fracking-natural-gas-nuclear-bombs-radioactive-engineer-awesome-drilling-be-allowed-half-mile-blast-site-video-video
November 14th, 2012
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Source: IO9
Author: Esther Inglis-Arkell
Date: July 27, 2012

The Plowshare program was both a public relations ploy and a serious scientific study. It was an attempt to see if nuclear bombs could be used in peaceful constructive ways. If it had been successful, America would pretty much be humming by now.

During the late 1930s and early 1940s, the entire focus of the atomic program was to create the weapon to end any war, even one as all-consuming as World War II. After the war, the makers of the bomb saw its power, and their own uneasy public, and tried to think of ways to both soothe the American people, and put the bombs to good use. Some of their minds drifted to the Bible verse in Isiah 2:4, “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”

[…]  Project Rulison and Project Gasbuggy were an attempt to free natural gas with nuclear explosions.  […]

Post Independent, Sept. 29, 2012: Project Rulison […] released 10 times the amount of natural gas as compared to traditional methods. However, the natural gas was contaminated with radioactivity, rendering it unmarketable. […] Recently, there has been much debate over whether it is now safe to drill in the buffer zone. In December of 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved drilling within the three-mile buffer zone, although permission has not yet been given to drill within a half-mile of the blast site.

November 16, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | history, USA