Excavating With Nuclear Explosives • Technology Status Report Plowshare Program • 1968/1973
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This video discusses the Plowshare Program - a program that promoted using the energy produced from nuclear explosions for peaceful uses and applications. The Atomic Energy Commission established the program in 1958, and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) developed and implemented the projects and tests. Under this program 27 nuclear tests comprising 35 individual detonations were conducted.
The video describes the objectives of the Plowshare Program tests that include: stimulation of natural gas production; creation of underground zones of fractured oil shale; earth breaking and moving projects; neutron irradiation of targets to create new elements; copper and other metal extraction from the earth; breaking and crushing mineral deposits; and rapid excavation for large scale construction projects such as harbors, canals, or mountain passes.
Comparisons between conventional and nuclear explosives in terms of cost, volume, and practical uses are discussed. Nuclear explosions are shown in schematic animation format in addition to actual film footage. Footage of people entering the underground GNOME cavity is shown, as well as close-ups of the five simultaneous, BUGGY row detonations. Conventional explosive comparisons are also shown, including one of almost 1400 tons of chemical explosives that decapitated the submerged pinnacles of Ripple Rock. The Rock had imperiled ships using the Inland Passage north of Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Plowshare cratering tests shown in the “Nuclear Excavation" portion of the video include:
• SEDAN, NTS, July 6, 1962, 104 kilotons (kt)
• SULKY, NTS, December 18, 1964, 92 tons
• CABRIOLET, NTS, January 26, 1968, 2.3 kt
• BUGGY-A, BUGGY-B, BUGGY-C, BUGGY-D, and BUGGY-E, NTS, March 12, 1968, five simultaneous detonations, separate holes, 1.08 kt (each)
• SCHOONER, NTS, December 8, 1968, 30 kt
0800035 - NUCLEAR EXCAVATION, EXCAVATING WITH NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVES (8:45) AND PLOWSHARE (28:22) 1968 and 1973 Black & White and Color 37:07 total
I like this "we can build anything", and "there's nothing we can't do, and no problem we can't solve" culture. I guess most of the project managers were WW2 veterans.
Yes that's the tail end of the genuinely good people. People who saw something greater than money and consumerism in their function in life.
It's really sad to see how things have changed and how far they have fallen
I would say most of them were just greedy bastards.
That is what you think they really thought? More likely it was "We have these devices our buy-bull gave us to kill people with so we should do more of what the buy-bull says and irradiate the place to extract wealth from the community easier. As long as we don't exchange one money to another, cause that's a sin, we pray!" If their buy-bull wasn't already on their sleeve they would slap you in the face with it, it is so obvious. It's as if there is anything useful or good to be extracted from it besides dog whistle project names.
@@scrappydoo7887 Money and consumerism is why they were doing these things. You didn't listen to the good man. "Bring people and food to where there is only desolation." So you can put up more businesses and suburbia, a post War segregated suburbia. "To bring freedom of movement where there are imposing barriers." Remove the mountain simply so they can rape what is in it to make money? Not just that but so we can put a road through it. The cheap electricity plant they show I believe is what is called a Salt Reactor, what they built here and in Japan were Cheap reactors. The Salt Reactors are much safer with almost no risk of runaway or melt down but they are very expensive. You can tell the good man was lying because everybody he was talking about is wearing a suit. If somebody wearing a suit says he is trying to make better the conditions of humanity, he is lying. That's really what they mean with the idiom, "Don't trust anyone over thirty." what they mean is a person in a suit.
Those are the last of what you describe as the 'genuinely good people'? If that were true I would say good riddance but it isn't. Your definition describes the type of personalities that we call preachers and pastors and reverends and confidence men and CEO's and Bankers. If that is truly what you think, I am glad we have this digital barrier between us, this is close enough.
(scrappy doo? everybody hated that guy)
Except cancer. They couldn’t figure out how not to cause an epidemic of cancer.
To be fair, the Russians actually used (nuclear) explosives to create underground natural gas containment vessels. Turns out it does make a nice round ball, but it leaks like crazy. Can’t wait to see the sinkholes they will create someday…
One of my college profs was a teen in the 60's and heard about Plowshare and using nukes for peaceful projects. He and a bunch of friends were convinced that they had the perfect use for one. Stick it on a raft and use it as the grand finale to an off shore fireworks display. They would recoup their costs by charging an admission fee. He thought some would pay huge prices for front row seats on the raft. Yes, my prof smoked a little weed in the 60's and admitted to it often. Never sure if this story was to encourage us or to discourage us from trying drugs.
People were already able to see nuclear explosions from Las Vegas rooftops for free.
😂😂😂👍
I'd pay...
"Right on, man".😎👍
😅😅😅😅😅
I can see this working. Everybody needs a radioactive harbour.
IT WILL BE EASY TO SPOT FROM A SAFE DISTANCE ,,,,FFS ONLY THE YANKS COULD SWALLOW
SUCH bs
The resultant glow eliminates the need for a lighthouse 👍
@@FishBaitBlue BONUS COST SAVING,, no doubt sustainable,,, NAZI FOREIGN POLICY,,IS WW2 OVER ?
Yes, in your great grandson's lifetime the canal we just blasted should be Safe, and mostly radiation free..
Night fishing.
Brilliant. you know people are still probably thinking about doing this today. there is still fallout involved. you know the type to stick around for a long time.
Define "a long time."
1 to 5 years
@@MadDragon75 Caesium-137 has a half-life of about 30.05 years. Strontium-90 (90
Sr) is a radioactive isotope produced by nuclear fission, with a half-life of 28.8 years. Both of these isotopes are bioaccumulators in the food chain. Caesium mimics potassium in biological systems, Strontium mimics calcium and is absorbed into the bones and teeth of children who drink the milk after fallout.
I once read of a nuclear scheme even more harebrained than this in a small, half-page article in a late 1940s popular technologies magazine. 'Atoms Give Iron Horse New Lease On Life' was the headline, and it detailed how the steam locomotive might become economically viable again by replacing the coal-fired boiler with a fission steam generator, complete with a two-color cutaway view. Not mentioned is what happens in an accident, such as a collision or if a BLEVE launches the boiler a quarter-mile.
No different than the Trupact containers that travel all over the U.S. with radioactive materials. They've hit flatbed trucks with locomotives and the Trupact container survived without releasing radioactive material. The idea that radioactivity can't be contained is in your imagination. It can, the containment simply has to be designed as needed for the conditions anticipated.
The power of the atom is beyond your skill level. You cannot equip this item until you advance 10 levels.
So, where can I buy such a handy nuclear device? It would ease the building of my fallout shelter
radiation already included?
@@williamfowler616 hell yes. since I feed on radioactivity, it will be shelter for fallout, not from fallout
The bomb, to protect you from the bomb.
And it would be self lighting! 😎
@@booklover6753 Never needs batteries!
why am I suddenly getting all these vids about nuclear war, research and history in my feed boxes? I never searched anything about it ever.... They trying to subtle tell me something? ... :/
Unfortunately the recent safety concerns means that more people are searching these old videos. The algorithm uses that and then identifies people similar to those who might be interested. I am a person who normally watches these but they very rarely are on the main feed.
@@leechowning2712 Ok ....Or .... the algorithms are being set to try to make the public afraid and scared. Which ultimately a Scared Population is a Compliant Population ... Look how well that worked with Covid ... :/
I feel like we slipped out of this timeline and into the 'nuclear technology for offensive bombs only' one sometime after this was made...
Ah but you have your timeline skewed.. This was after thermonuclear offensive bombs in 1952. Matter of fact if you want to go back in time and stop nuclear bombs, go back to 1945 and stop the United States and Russia from stealing the Atomic work done by Germany.
@@Ironman829 that's a bit of a stretch
@@Ironman829 that's fuuuuunnyy! You really made me giggle! 🤣
@@malachiwhite356 True.
true- algo !
Radiation is Hot this year 😜
1: "soo... fallout is stuff from the ground sucked up into the fireball and made radioactive?"
2: "that's right"
1: "cool, let's set one off just below the surface to maximize how much radioactive junk is thrown up into the air!"
2: "but... why?"
1: "my shrink says it's because someone stole my Tonka toy dump truck when I was six."
Does anyone believe they thought excavating with nuclear weapons was a good idea? This seems more like research to see how much we could damage an underground bunker.
The problem is _delivering_ a weapon so it'd detonate hundreds of feet underground... so yeah, they legitimately thought this was a thing that could have worked. _Technically_, they were correct: there's nothing in the engineering or science that says it's completely irrational or impossible to use atomics for massive earth-moving projects, depending on one's environmental and health constraints.
What really killed Project Plowshare is, I think, nuclear non-proliferation--even more than test ban treaties. There's a line in this video early on that stands out: "at some point, the badges of the state will give way to the hard hats of industry." This strongly suggests the private control of nukes in some fashion, which is a total non-starter in the modern nuclear regulation regime (and that's not a bad thing). While a nuclear demolition charge isn't as effective a killer as a dedicated weapon, you can just imagine what'd happen if some schmuck misplaced or willfully carted off a mass-produced bomb that could end up in the hands of nearly anyone.
Look up Project Gnome. They actually were able to make a significant underground chamber deep into salt layers over 1,000 feet down. The device used was one of our cleaner nukes, at 6 months the radiation detected was only 5 miliroegen, 25 times below the modern safety levels for short term. I wish they had spent a little time to see if it could be rendered safe.
"Created in seconds with the tremendous energy of the peaceful atom" 0:50
"A fiery but mostly peaceful protest"
I guess somethings really don't change
Actually, they're completely different. One is of an industrial nature. The other is people throwing a hissy fit. Chemical explosives are used for offensive purposes as well.
They Craters have many uses, such as they could be uses to retain drinking water in the desert.. ..Now that's Plowshare!
Shhhhh that makes too much sense and would solve a problem. Washington doesn’t solve problems, it creates them
"Today's energy is too costly" back when the dollar meant a weeks worth of eating out
It also meant you worked all day for your dollar.
@@noahway13 and? I know what it is like to work for free rent.. $15/hr (before taxes and insurance if lucky enough) is a pretty good job. So many people do not know how to live off of $40 a week. I do and I'm starving. Literally praying I do not need to cut holes in my belt because I ran out. AGAIN
@@JB-or9yw You talked like it was wonderful that you could eat out for a week, for a dollar. (for a round number) But the ratio of pay vs buying is about the same.
These people really did have faith in these projects didn't they.
I'm so pleased that science caught up kind of in time
The science may have caught up just in time to tell us that it is too late but it doesn't matter because it is too hard to change culture.
I went to Lowes and asked for the B54-SADM to clear some trees and excavate for a water catchment system. They told me they do not stock them and they don't know anybody who does.
They have massive underground excavations done in this fashion. Some are so big they are compacted wall voids hundreds and hundreds of feet in circumferences and deep underground. We know of the use of them on the NV bomb range. Some underground voids hold natural gas reserves.
example?
The large deep underground military bases or d u m b S lol I know, plus the network of underground tunnels that are 4 lanes wide, large enough for semi trucks and railways underground . These were constructed in the 50s -70s as b
Nuke shelters for large numbers of populace failsafe. The civilian internet came to be as a result of these above and below ground sites being interconnected for the purpose of maintaining the ability to autonomously strike back at the soviets in case of a first strike/ bunker busting attack
@@imadrifter those werent constructed using nuclear bombs though. so why are you talking about that irrelevent crap you idiot?
There's one cavity here in Mississippi.
@@festusbojangles7027 Project Gnome, near Carlsbad Caverns, left a 90ft tall cavern 120 ft wide. Or at least it did until they collapsed it once they finished studying.
Collecting and storing rainwater in radioactive craters... Sure, fine.
We could store water next to the dangerous unwanted chemicals in the other hole we created next door. Everyone's wins!
depending on the location it could work without releasing radiation if the nuke detonated very deep in the ground then the ground on top falls into the hole putting 100s of feet of earth between the blast zone and the top
@@imchris5000 I guess they should just have dug a giant hole at Chernobyl and filled it with boron.
Those were the days
Ahhh yes... Operation Chrome Dome and the B41.... Those were indeed the days.
The things we have learned since child care OMG
As vezes fico me perguntando será o aquela pessoa com seus burrinhos ainda está viva? 11:50 quando eu assisto vídeo antigos eu sempre me faço essa pergunta.
Well, if a farming and /or mining application was a goal in this project, why was the radiation factor ignored? lol. I do believe in nuclear energy as a viable source of it, I however take issue with using them for any public works programs. Thinning the heard (population control may have been on the table) would be very effective for that.Too soon we get old, too late we get smart... Get Smart. My favorite T.V. program of all time.
depending on the design of the device it may consume all the radioactive material converting it to heat. not every nuke is the same
@@imchris5000 I didn't know that. I'd still be a little bit concerned about the residual radiation.
Environmental impact was not fully known
@@OALM I thought the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have made that evident. I do forget that studies in new tech can take years.
I’m with “environmental impact not known”. This film makes everything sound perfect w zero downsides.
Elon needs to work on the nuclear Hyperloop. It's even easier than an air hockey table in a vacuum tube. The Hyperloop tube needs to be very, very straight, because nuclear velocities will do strange things to living tissue if you change direction... The math is pretty clear, the tube has to be straight. You put your pod in at one end of the tube, insert a spring loaded tamper/ablation plate, and then put your nuke power supply in after the pod and tamper... Trigger the nuke and you are off!! Elon can make this work, but he needs access to the nukes. The White Paper is already published practically, it's very similar to Project Orion, but for single person or small group pod travel.
I have very good client who pays well in Moskva, Big Harry potter fan who needs deep excavation work.
Any excuse to keep building them. I bet they'd have blasted duck ponds by request.
Nu-kanals.
Lol
I get it.
Retched.
A little thing called radiation
I feel like they're trying to guilt me into this bad idea
This is why there are so many cancers today.
Would suggest you read the research paper : "Long-Term Trends in Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1930-1998." You'll find out cancer rates have declined since 1930.
Deep underground military bases...
Atomics!!!!
I wished this joke. There was people wanted use theys weapons make a lake an Canales in Africa.
They wanted to use a row of nukes to connect to rivers here in Mississippi back in the 60s. Didnt happen.
*Plowshare" you say? What could possibly go wrong?
Nothing. The only thing that went wrong was not funding Ted Taylor's nuclear rocket.
Cave Johnson
Wonder if this guys still kicking after handling poison sand think he still has his fingers.
What the heck was wrong with people back then?
Nothing. They were attempting to find out the limits of what could be done with nuclear technology. Of course, none of them were nearly as smart as you are...
@@buckhorncortez thank you for the smartass response.
@@buckhorncortez ..😂
No wonder it didn't proceed - can't spell plough properly. ;) and who would have through storing water in irradiated soil/rock was a bad idea.
Plowshare.. Pfft. The General's said: "F that! We want a Plowdown", ..as in Plow Down your Enemies.
@Romulus III Thanks!
The way the second film shows us beautiful scenery and implies it is in the way and harmful to mankind is illustrative of the shortsightedness we have to keep our eyes open for. Nuclear fans promised us power "too cheap to meter" and here they are telling us they will dig drinking wells with nukes. Bats*&t crazy.
Yeah it's almost like people come up with ideas and then other people spend time and money studying these ideas so that they can determine if it's worth doing.
@@phaiz55 These are terrible ideas. Do they count? You really shouldn't use nukes to dig marinas. You don't want to destroy the natural features of this planet, like rock features, or bring water to a desert, because we know that will disrupt the ecosystem. Gung Ho has its place but with nukes you have to think twice, don't you? Come on, this is just wasteful stuff here. Just because you can change the face of the Earth doesn't meant you necessarily should, but I understand your point.
South Carolina (which gets most of its electricity from nuclear power) does offer unmetered (flat-rate) electricity.
@@KieraCameron514 Wow, I like it, but is that free? I mean that's kinda what they were promising back in the 1970's. Too cheap to meter doesn't exist lol They can measure and put a price on anything they want to. We were told power would be free to all mankind, they have always used a kind of social justice warrior masking to provide cover for the latest crazy scheme.
@@widescreennavel No one would ever say electricity would be free.
Can they make 'slow' and 'fast' burning nukes, like they have for regular explosives?
They can make big and very big.
No.
@@timothyswag3594 They can actually make small too by doing a controlled fizzle.
Nuclear earth excavating..makes person wonder size of past asteroid impacts on earth and their locations hidden under the sea......
Oh man, we can't get any more research funding to build bombs! We better find a new way to sell our nuclear bomb design services so that our careers and fame don't all come to a sudden end!
Project Plowshare was created to see if nuclear explosions could be used for civilian, peaceful purposes. You might be interested in the nuclear rocket that Ted Taylor proposed. It would have had the capability of lifting huge weights into orbit and had applications for interplanetary travel. He proved the concept using conventional explosives. The Limited Test Ban Treaty that outlawed nuclear testing in space ended that idea.
Edward Teller proposed producing electrical power from the H-bomb. They actually tested the concept. A nuke was detonated in a salt dome, opening a cavity, melting the salt, and trapping the heat. Then a drill crew drills into the cavity with two pipes, one to inject water, and the other to pipe steam to a turbine. It didn't work.
“Smart people” will be the end of humans
You clearly have a very ape brain. You are unevolved as evident by your fear of technology and advancement and you don't want the rest of the species evolving.
Thank you grandparents but it's time to take the car key away from your reach
"for your own good"
yeah remember that line you used on us as kid's..it always comes back.
How ignorant they were
No more so than putting lead into gasoline...
@@rockets4kids During WWII they blended gasoline up to 150 octane for aircraft using tetraethyl lead and specialized petroleum fractions. There were cases of fuel handlers getting lead poisoning from skin exposures. The fuel they mixed was credited with giving allied aviation a serious edge over the Axis.
@@rtqii TEL is some pretty amazing stuff. People wrote off ethanol as an octane booster back in the day because it was expensive and inferior, but that's what we're using today. Shame that it's so toxic.
I think this is how the Kiev subway is going to be made😉😃
Back before society became pathetic and weak.
yeah when people spread radioactivity all over the damn place, and had some lead in our gas. fuck outta here with that shit lol
Why don't you go live there first and let us know how it works out for you.
..African Electron ..You're right. 🇺🇸 😎👍☕
Algorithm.
A series of instructions of a maths formula.
what a terrible idea
Not all ideas are good, lol
Wont it be great was dumb idea
They make it sound as if they knew what they were doing.
Wasteful useless folly. All of it so Teller could get in front of a camera.
Edward Teller proposed producing electrical power from the H-bomb. They actually tested the concept. A nuke was detonated in a salt dome, opening a cavity, melting the salt, and trapping the heat. Then a drill crew drills into the cavity with two pipes, one to inject water, and the other to pipe steam to a turbine. It didn't work.
@@rtqii The average temperature of the Earth is 50 degrees F, measured from surface to core. The mass of the Earth is 6 X 10^24 kilograms. It would act as a huge heat sink for an H-bomb detonation near the surface of the Earth.