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Wait -- They Drilled for Gas With a Nuclear Bomb?!
Oil company hopes to drill near nuclear-blast cavity in Colorado |
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09 May 2005 |
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| Wait -- They Drilled for Gas With a Nuclear Bomb?! Oil company hopes to drill near nuclear-blast cavity in Colorado Some 36 years ago, the Atomic Energy Commission and a Texas oil company put a nuclear bomb in an 8,000-foot shaft on Colorado's energy-rich Western Slope and detonated it, hoping to reach a reserve of natural gas lying beneath the subterranean rock. T ... |
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