Dulce, New Mexico, The site of Project Gasbuggy, a 1967 nuclear explosion designed to fracture rock to extract natural gas. The project was part of Operation Plowshare, a government program aimed at finding peaceful uses for nuclear explosions. It worked as planned, except that the gas that was liberated was too radioactive to be used
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Dulce, New Mexico, The site of Project Gasbuggy, a 1967 nuclear explosion designed to fracture rock to extract natural gas. The project was part of Operation Plowshare, a government program aimed at finding peaceful uses for nuclear explosions. It worked as planned, except that the gas that was liberated was too radioactive to be used

Date

23 juin 2021

Crédit

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jim West

Notre référence

BRK25B57_158

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

86,1Mo (6,5Mo) / 56,9cm x 37,9cm / 6720 x 4480 (300dpi)

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