Jul 23, 2020 09:00:00

The Soviet Union has used a nuclear bomb to extinguish a massive fire in a gas field that has been burning for three years

The Soviet Union, which has been in the cold war with the United States for nearly half a century since the end of World War II, is actively conducting research on the military use of nuclear power in a form of confrontation with the United States, with 60,000 at the most. It is said that he possessed the above nuclear weapons. In the Soviet Union, a movie is showing the situation when using nuclear weapons to extinguish a large fire that occurred in a gas field.

USSR DETONATED A NUCLEAR BOMB TO PUT OUT A BURNING GAS WELL-YouTube


In 1963, a large-scale gas leak broke out in the Urta-Brac natural gas field in the southern part of Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

The flame reached a height of 70 meters, consuming 14 million cubic meters of natural gas each day. The fire lasted for 1064 days, which is almost three years, and despite the hard extinguishing activities, the momentum of the fire did not diminish.

People in the fire fighting team who can no longer hide the color of fatigue from their faces

Not only was the fire extinguished by spraying water, a dangerous attempt was made to 'destroy and destroy the place where the flames gush out', but it had no effect.

So a more dangerous solution, devised in 1966, was the idea of using nuclear weapons to block gas leaks.

The idea is to reach a depth of 1532 meters underground

30 kilotons, a nuclear bomb with twice the power of an atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, is buried and exploded. By crushing the gas field pipes with the pressure generated at the time of the explosion, the gas generation itself is stopped. In addition, it seems that this plan had the implication of also carrying out a nuclear test in Ukraine.

Preparations were made in secret for four months, and finally fire fighting with nuclear weapons took place on September 30, 1966. In addition to military personnel, politicians and officials promoting nuclear tests gathered on the day. Countdown begins……

At the moment of the explosion, a shock wave was transmitted to the ground in an instant...

A camera that shakes greatly.

Nuclear weapons exploded as planned, and gas pipes in the gas fields were crushed tightly.

And as planned, the flame, which had been burning for three years, disappeared just 23 seconds after the explosion. Also, since the experiment was a secret, the vibration caused by the nuclear explosion was treated as an 'earthquake' by the authorities.

All radioactive materials generated by this nuclear explosion will be contained in the ground, but in order to prevent it from leaking to the ground, the Soviet Union pours cement like a lid and completely fills the gas field. I took measures to fill it in.