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
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.
Chagan (nuclear test)
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Chagan was a Soviet underground nuclear test conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site on January 15, 1965.
Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy
…It was analogous to the United States program Project Plowshare, although the Soviet one consisted of 124 tests. One of the better-known tests was Chagan of January 15, 1965. Radioactivity from the Chagan test was detected over Japan by both the U.S. and Japan in apparent violation of the 1963 Partial…
Chagan nuclear test