In 1966 the USSR used a Nuclear bomb to put out an Oil well fire, documented the entire thing!

Submitted on 10/10/2014 by: Jaime
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A quick little read here:In 1966 the former Soviet Union suffered blowouts on five natural gas (methane) wells and despite their best efforts, including hydraulic fracturing, were unable to quench the flames. The Soviets lowered a specially made 30 kiloton nuclear bomb into a 6 kilometres (20,000 ft) borehole. The nuclear explosion took 23 seconds to put out the fire.

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