Project Gasbuggy: Atomic Bombs for Natural Gas Production

I'm doing my best Tom Scott impression at the site of the Gasbuggy nuclear test in northern New Mexico.
See also an original news film about Gasbuggy, unfortunately locked up in Periscope Films: • NUCLEAR BOMB FRACKING ...

[@tysonw1031]

I worked in this gas basin for 18 years,…gives me anxiety to this day watching yall drive out there in the snow and mud. That place as beautiful as it is is a mother effer in the spring and winter! Glad to see yall took the easy way in from the Jicarilla Reservation! FR 314 at HWY 64 can be un-forgiving at certain times of year!!

[@suzannejamison5366]

My dad was a wire line operator who worked on the rig that drilled this project. Project Gasbuggy would be hysterical if it weren’t such a terrible environmental and financial failure. I remember my dad coming home just laughing because he thought these people were nuts - of course if you explode an atom bomb to produce gas and oil, the gas and oil are going to be radioactive! How brilliant does one have to be to figure this out? Ultimately, they flared off all the radioactive produced gas into the environment.

[@andrewsturmey]

Very interesting video. Thank you for the research and production.

[@milesmoyers]

Nice report, always looking forward to the work you put into these 👍🏻

[@terrydavis8451]

did you bring a Geiger counter? I would sugest 4, there are cheap ones around $40 that will tell you if anything is above background. Then the good ole CDV-700 with a detachable probe $100-$200. a GM600+$325-350 because it picks up gama or a radiocode 3 ($399) you can take gama spectrums and identify isotopes.