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Project Oilsand, also known as Project Oilsands, and originally known as Project Cauldron, was a 1958 proposal to exploit the Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta via the underground detonation of up to 100 nuclear explosives; [1] hypothetically, the heat and pressure created by an underground detonation would boil the bitumen deposits, reducing their viscosity to the point that standard oilfield ...
The operation consisted of 29 explosions, of which only two did not produce any nuclear yield.Twenty-one laboratories and government agencies were involved. While most Operation Plumbbob tests contributed to the development of warheads for intercontinental and intermediate range missiles, they also tested air defense and anti-submarine warheads with smaller yields.
Blast shelters are a vital form of protection from nuclear attacks and are employed in civil defense. There are above-ground, below-ground, dedicated, dual-purpose, and potential blast shelters. Dedicated blast shelters are built specifically for the purpose of blast protection (see bunker). Dual-purpose blast shelters are existing structures ...
The Ark Two Shelter is a nuclear fallout shelter built by Bruce Beach (14 April 1934 – 10 May 2021) [1] [2] in the village of Horning's Mills (north of Toronto, Ontario). [3] The shelter first became habitable in 1980 and has been continuously expanded and improved since then. [ 4 ]
A seven-story cavern between the tunnels contained shelter infrastructure including a command post, an emergency hospital, a radio studio, a telephone centre, prison cells and ventilation machines. [1] The shelter was designed to withstand the blast from a 1 megaton nuclear explosion 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) away. The blast doors at the tunnel ...
A company looking to store spent nuclear fuel in southeast New Mexico went before a federal appeals court Tuesday to defend the proposal from environmental groups and an oil company in the Permian ...
A fallout shelter is a shelter designed specifically for a nuclear war, with thick walls made from materials intended to block the radiation from fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters [1] were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War. A blast shelter protects against
The present shelter is constructed on top of the ruins of the reactor building. The "Mammoth Beam" that supports the roof of the shelter rests partly on the structurally unsound west wall of the reactor building that was damaged by the accident. [8] The western end of the shelter roof is supported by a wall at a point designated axis 50.