UNDERGROUND BOMB TESTS
LAS VEGAS (Nevada), March 7. Scientists of the United States Atomic Energy Commission estimate that half the future atomic tests in the United States will be underground detonations with no fall-out problems. On September 19 an atomic device was exploded in a tunnel dug deep under the Nevada Desert.
Scientists said today that the development gave the commission a “clean” way to explode nuclear devices.
Dr. Dale Nielsen, of the University of California Radiation Laboratory, said he hoped for an underground blast in rock which would retain the l,ooo,ooodeg heat of the explosion. Then, he said, it would be possible to try to develop the world’s first outdoor nuclear reactor by using the trapped heat to convert water into steam to turn a turbine.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28531, 10 March 1958, Page 9
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