Atomic energy and the gas industry
Project Gasbuggy and Project Ketch are part of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's (AEC) Plowshare Program. Plowshare, established in 1957, has the task of investigating and developing peaceful uses for nuclear explosives. Project Gasbubby is a joint program of the AEC, the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM), Lawrence Radiation Lab., and El Paso Natural Gas Co. The general aim of the program is to prove the utility of nuclear-explosive stimulation of low-productivity gas reservoirs. The principal objectives of Project Gasbuggy are to determine the effects of the nuclear explosion on the gas-bearing formation: how much fracturing occurs, the seismic effects that will be transmitted through the soil to surrounding structures, the characteristics of the radioactive materials formed and ways of disposing of the radioactive materials. Project Ketch was proposed by the Columbia Gas System Service Corp. as an experiment to determine the feasibility of creating a natural-gas-storage reservoir with an nuclear explosive. Project Ketch is being sponsored by AEC, USBM, Lawrence Radiation Lab., and the Columbia Gas System Service Corp.
- OSTI ID:
- 6032079
- Journal Information:
- Gas Age; (United States), Journal Name: Gas Age; (United States) Vol. 135:5; ISSN GAAGA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
450201* -- Military Technology
Weaponry
& National Defense-- Nuclear Explosions & Explosives-- Containment
COORDINATED RESEARCH PROGRAMS
CROSSTIE OPERATION
ENERGY
ENERGY SOURCES
EXPLOSIONS
EXPLOSIVE STIMULATION
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GASBUGGY EVENT
GASES
INDUSTRY
LAWRENCE BERKELEY LABORATORY
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NATURAL GAS
NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY
NATURAL GAS WELLS
NUCLEAR ENERGY
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
PLOWSHARE PROJECT
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
STIMULATION
STORAGE
UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS
US AEC
US BUREAU OF MINES
US DOE
US DOI
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
WELL STIMULATION
WELLS