Chagan (nuclear test)
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Chagan was a Soviet underground nuclear test conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site on January 15, 1965.
Chagan nuclear test
Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy was a Soviet program to investigate peaceful nuclear explosions. It was analogous to the United States program Project Plowshare, although the Soviet one co
Chagan (nuclear test)
…underground nuclear test conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site on January 15, 1965. Chagan was the first and largest of the 124 detonations in the Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy program, designed to produce peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs) for earth-moving purposes. The concept of using PNEs to create artificial lakes, harbors…
Soviet PNE program "Project Neva" at the hydrocarbon Sredne-Botuobinsk reservoir 120km south-southwest of town Mirnyy in the Siberian Yakut Republic in 1976 to explore nuclear explosions to increase gas stimulation led to Soviet researchers finding surprising oil stimulation results.