Download or read book Engineering Applications of Nuclear Explosives Project Plowshare written by Gerald W. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Engineering Applications of Nuclear Explosives written by Gerald W. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Project Plowshare written by Ralph Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Explosives Plowshare written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes scientific articles and papers, p. 55-606.

Download or read book Essential Guide to Project Plowshare written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three official government reports about the Plowshare peaceful nuclear explosion program are reproduced in this unique compilation: Plowshare Program Summary Report, Plowshare AEC Document, and Projects Gnome and Sedan Defense Department report.The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), now the Department of Energy (DOE), established the Plowshare Program as a research and development activity to explore the technical and economic feasibility of using nuclear explosives for industrial applications. The reasoning was that the relatively inexpensive energy available from nuclear explosions could prove useful for a wide variety of peaceful purposes. The Plowshare Program began in 1958 and continued through 1975. Between December 1961 and May 1973, the United States conducted 27 Plowshare nuclear explosive tests comprising 35 individual detonations. Conceptually, industrial applications resulting from the use of nuclear explosives could be divided into two broad categories: 1) large-scale excavation and quarrying, where the energy from the explosion was used to break up and/or move rock; and 2) underground engineering, where the energy released from deeply buried nuclear explosives increased the permeability and porosity of the rock by massive breaking and fracturing. Possible excavation applications included: canals, harbors, highway and railroad cuts through mountains, open pit mining, construction of dams, and other quarry and construction-related projects. Underground nuclear explosion applications included: stimulation of natural gas production, preparation of leachable ore bodies for in situ leaching, creation of underground zones of fractured oil shale for in situ retorting, and formation of underground natural gas and petroleum storage reservoirs.On June 6, 1958, the Atomic Energy Commission publicly announced the establishment of the Plowshare Program, named for the biblical injunction to ensure peace by beating swords into plowshares. "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." The Program objective was to use nuclear explosives for civilian as opposed to military purposes. The AEC San Francisco Operations Office (SAN) Special Projects Group provided the oversight management for Plowshare with support efforts from the AEC Albuquerque and Oak Ridge Offices, Sandia, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. Bureau of Mines. On October 31, 1958, the U.S. and the Soviet Union entered into a nuclear weapons testing moratorium. No nuclear tests were conducted for almost three years. During that time, Plowshare planning studies and high explosive tests would be conducted to evaluate excavation techniques. By the end of 1958, DMA had established the Peaceful Nuclear Explosives (PNE) Branch to manage the Plowshare Program. Dr. Edward Teller, then the director of the Livermore Laboratory, had outlined an ambitious Plowshare Program for fiscal years (FY) 1959-60 in his October 7, 1958, letter to Dr. H. Fiedler, AEC/SAN. The LRL-L program proposed studies in these areas: for FY 1959 - constructing a channel through the reef at Kapingamarangi in the Marshall Islands; harbors at both Cape Thompson and Katalla, Alaska; a canal across the Alaskan peninsula at Port Moller; oil extraction from tar sands and from oil shale; creating artificial aquifers; and mining by leaching; for FY 1960 - in addition to continuing the above-mentioned projects, testing a new nuclear explosive design, and using a nuclear detonation for physics experiments.

Download or read book Plowshare written by Carl R. Gerber and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Project Plowshare written by Scott Kaufman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission and the University of California's Radiation Laboratory began in 1957 a program they called Plowshare. Joined by like-minded government officials, scientists, and business leaders, champions of "peaceful nuclear explosions" maintained that they could create new elements and isotopes for general use, build storage facilities for water or fuel, mine ores, increase oil and natural gas production, generate heat for power production, and construct roads, harbors, and canals. By harnessing the power of the atom for nonmilitary purposes, Plowshare backers expected to protect American security, defend U.S. legitimacy and prestige, and ensure access to energy resources. Scott Kaufman's extensive research in nearly two dozen archives in three nations shows how science, politics, and environmentalism converged to shape the lasting conflict over the use of nuclear technology. Indeed, despite technological and strategic promise, Plowshare's early champions soon found themselves facing a vocal and powerful coalition of federal and state officials, scientists, industrialists, environmentalists, and average citizens. Skeptical politicians, domestic and international pressure to stop nuclear testing, and a lack of government funding severely restricted the program. By the mid-1970s, Plowshare was, in the words of one government official, "dead as a doornail." However, the thought of using the atom for peaceful purposes remains alive.

Download or read book Education for Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosives written by Lynn E. Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Explosives Plowshare written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes scientific articles and papers, p. 55-606.

Download or read book Plowshare written by Carl R. Gerber and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Applications of Nuclear Explosives to Increase Effective Well Diameters written by Henry F. Coffer and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peaceful Uses for Nuclear Explosives written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred nine annotated and subject-arranged references are presented to reports and published literature concerning excavation, natural resources development and scientific applications. Author and report number availability indexes are included.

Download or read book Proving Grounds written by Scott Kirsch and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Proving Grounds, Scott Kirsch traces the rise and fall of this astonishing cold war initiative. He examines the work that went into making "geographical engineering" or "earthmoving" an imminent possibility as well as the public controversy, scientific uncertainty, and political opposition that kept it--with the exception of several massive craters in the Nevada desert--out of the landscape.

Download or read book Nuclear Explosion Services for Industrial Applications written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers H.R. 477 and identical H.R. 10288 and companion S. 1885, to amend the Atomic Energy Act to authorize AEC to provide peaceful nuclear explosives to commercial domestic and foreign concerns under an expanded Plowshare Program. Includes report "Nuclear Construction Engineering Technology" by Lt. Col. Bernard C. Hughes, Sept. 1968 (p. 447-629).

Download or read book Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosives written by United States. Defense Atomic Support Agency and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosives written by A. R. W. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives written by David B. Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library Collection.