Project Rulison
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Project Rulison, named after the rural community of Rulison, Colorado, was an underground 40-kiloton nuclear test project in the United States on September 10, 1969, about 8 miles SE of the town of Gr
View of Rulison Site.
Rulison Test Site in 2012
Project Gasbuggy
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Project Gasbuggy was an underground nuclear detonation carried out by the United States Atomic Energy Commission on December 10, 1967 in rural northwestern New Mexico. It was part of Operation Plowsha
Project Rulison
…This was the second of three nuclear demonstration projects for natural-gas-reservoir stimulation as part of the Plowshare program. The other two were Project Gasbuggy in 1967 in northern New Mexico and Project Rio Blanco in 1973 in Colorado. The Department of Energy began a cleanup of the site in the 1970s which was…
*Project Gasbuggy top placard
The Project Gasbuggy placard.
Gasbuggy nuclear device before emplacement.
Artists impression of the test setup