Soviets put out a burning gas well with a nuclear explosion (1966) [video]

Re:Soviets put out a burning gas well with a nuclear explosi... by anticodon on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:01AM (#28614654)

These tests by and large ended up radiating populations and not telling them.

Proof? It was an underground explosion in a very sparsely populated location. How exactly and whom it ended up radiating?

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Re:Soviets put out a burning gas well with a nuclear explosi... by thriftwy on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:02AM (#28615830)

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Глобус-1

Another test - a nuclear blast in the vicinity of Moscow, which caused small contaminated area (100x150 m) as well as risk of polluting the Volga basin.

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Re:Soviets put out a burning gas well with a nuclear explosi... by GekkePrutser on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:28AM (#28615532)

And yet the same video mentions the H2S release earlier in the process as dangerous to nearby populations (timestamp 3:34)

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Re:Soviets put out a burning gas well with a nuclear explosi... by marcosdumay on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:30AM (#28616708)

I understood the H2S was leaking through much more superficial ground than the one that received the nuclear blast.

Of course, we don't actually know the details about any of it. But there were plenty of underground nuclear explosions, and people are usually quite good at controlling them.

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Re:Soviets put out a burning gas well with a nuclear explosi... by beerandt on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @12:01PM (#28617944)

H2S is from oil and gas wells, not the nuclear explosion.

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