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In 1967, the US set off a 29-kiloton bomb under New Mexico to free natural gas; five tests yielded 213 million cubic feet, but the gas was radioactive

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The U.S. government’s Project Gasbuggy used a nuclear explosion in 1967 to fracture rock and increase gas output. (AI-generated/ChatGPT)

What if the best way to get more gas out of the ground was to set off a nuclear bomb under it? It sounds like a bad movie plot, but the US government really did try it. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the Atomic Energy Commission detonated a 29-kiloton nuclear device in northwestern … Read more