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To bring water and food where
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and people where there is desolation

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thank the bringing freedom of movement
where there are imposing barriers.

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And commerce where Nature has
decreed there will be isolation.

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To bring forth a wealth of material
where there are vast and tap resources

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and a wealth of knowledge where there is
uncertainty to perform a multitude of

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peaceful tasks for the betterment of mankind
man is exploring a source of enormous

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potential youthful energy
a nuclear explosion.

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He sees the potential

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and he sees the problem to investigate
both of them to develop the technology

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that will turn potential then to reality
the United States is conducting for the

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benefit of all nations a
program it calls plow share

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today this scene of preparation for a
peaceful nuclear explosion is at an

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experimental site the mile on the potential
of nuclear explosives is fulfilled this

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plane will move to the site for a new
harbor canal or mountain pass. The mind.

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While the gas reservoir or
water storage space and.

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Or perhaps a new underground laboratory.

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Whatever the site and
wherever in the world.

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It might be the experts participating in
the event will be the same as they are

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here engineers scientists
public health authorities

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but eventually the badges of national
government will give way except for control

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of the explosive because
the hard hats of industry

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and Public Works personnel using this new
power tool for their own applications

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under established safety regulations.

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This is the day of reality that
plow share is working to fulfill.

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When it can deliver to
mankind a proven tool

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and a proven technology.

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Mankind wears many faces lined with
suffering from many different hardships.

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But there is a basic frustrating problem
common to all many of mankind's pressing

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needs can be accomplished only
by undertaking earth breaking

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and earth moving projects
that are too large

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or too costly with today's
Energy System man has performed

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useful asked with conventional explosives
for centuries but he has recognized

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and lived with their limitations. He knows

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that a conventional chemical explosion
releases the energy that Vimes atoms

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and molecules. But he also knows now

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that there is a far greater source of
energy within the album itself the energy

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that holds together the heart of the atom.

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Yes no plea

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and this is the energy released in a
nuclear explosion energy so enormous

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that man must express to yield

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or energy release of nuclear explosives
in terms of the tons thousands of tons.

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Or millions of tons of T.N.T.

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Required to produce an equal
amount of explosive energy

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but in grasping the full potential of
peaceful nuclear explosives man looks not

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only to their great energy but also
to their relative size and cost.

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He sees that a tenth of a tonne
nuclear explosive for example.

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Could be as small as fifteen inches
in diameter and three feet long.

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The price would be about three hundred
fifty thousand dollars the equivalent ten

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thousand tons of T.N.T.

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Would fill a spear about seventy three
feet in diameter with a price tag of about

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five million dollars.

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Furthermore if he increases the nuclear
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the package is only about two feet greater
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and the price barely doubles to
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Two hundred times he would have to increase
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times ending up with a pile of T.N.T.

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Weighing two million tons which
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And at the same time the
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Would increase two hundred times up
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enormous energy relatively
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and easily transported
there is a new power tool

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but power here would add to man's resources
of useful energy to do jobs never

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before a practical or even possible.

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Man had speculated on the peaceful
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Even before using them in time of war.

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It wasn't until the mid
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that definite plans began to take shape the
United States Atomic Energy Commission

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was already conducting the Atoms for
Peace program to benefit the health

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and welfare of men everywhere
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and supervising the peaceful uses of.

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Nuclear radiation science
medicine industry and agriculture

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and of nuclear power for
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In one thousand nine hundred eighty seven
the commission expanded Atoms for Peace

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with a new program peaceful
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The program by its name from words of the
prophet Isaiah in keeping with its goal

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to beat the destructive blade of the
nuclear sword into a power share

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that would cut deep into the earth for
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technical responsibility for biology

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or is assigned to the
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MARANS radiation laboratory at Livermore
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the specialized resources of other commissioned
laboratories are also brought into

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the biosphere effort but major
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Plus the special capabilities of various
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and educational institutions the task
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and develop safe efficient
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and the practical effect the way
to use the. Safety and technology.

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The two inseparable parts of the power
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task involves more than
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It involves delving deep into the store
hours of knowledge man has contacted on the

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explosive technology

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and safety centuries of mankind's
experience with chemical explosions

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and more than twenty years of experience
with nuclear explosions hundreds of

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nuclear explosions that are in the
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and underground in a variety of climatic
conditions all of this explosive

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experience combines to give plows here
the foundation for building its own

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specialized technology and it
provides the basis prostate.

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The standards

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that govern all of our fears field
experimentation before each experiment experts

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in geology seismology hydrology
meteorology radio biology

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and many other fields bring
their specialized knowledge

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and equipment into the field working with
public health authorities they are sure

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that their specific experiment is being
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standard this same thorough investigation
will precede the actual applications of

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nuclear explosions wherever

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and whenever they may be what
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Some will be dramatic in their own back
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earth an excavation job reshaping the
geography of the land in dimensions never

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before possible to meet the needs of man
needs he can see as he struggles against

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the geography nature has
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The physical effects of other nuclear
explosions may never be seen by the people

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they serve as the explosions are set up
deep underground to shatter large masses of

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rock in underground engineering jobs other
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harness the instantaneous relays
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and enormous pressures
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The is well influenced
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He may never realize

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that his daily life has been bettered by
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possible with nuclear explosions.

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These are the types of applications

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that our share is working to
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and experimentation in the
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A prelude to the full scientific exploitation
of nuclear explosions took place

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before the eyes of observers
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It was the first Felix paramount of the
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Amber nineteen sixty one twenty five
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A freak about a nuclear explosive was
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surface at the end of this one
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Several months out with a
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and photographers gave the world
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and laboratory powerchair

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experts whether the one hundred forty
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of scientific significance

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but even before there's actual
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and earth samples provided valuable
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during the gnome explosion added to scientists
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throughout a march part of the United
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scientists were able to capture analyze

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and measure some of the enormous quantity
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important step in expanding man's fundamental
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laboratory analysis of samples
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that nuclear explosions are a new potential
means of mass producing radioactive

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isotopes to meet the expanding
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and agriculture.

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But this was only the beginning of what
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scientific contributions
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What appears

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that man may now have within his reach a
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of nature this scheme may be
forged by a nuclear explosion.

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In nineteen sixty four important steps in
this direction were taken an experiment

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with nuclear explosive specially designed
to produce high intensity neutron

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radiation. The specific characteristic

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that promotes isotope formation in one
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were released by each explosion

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and could be released over decades in
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The blast pumped these new brands into
targets of uranium producing isotopes of

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very heavy elements beyond uranium
eventually large air scientists hope to use

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these heavier elements as
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The result could be the production of new
elements. Never before created by man.

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This may be the key to answering basic
questions about nature a man has asked since

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the beginning of time.

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There is another question man
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that raises an even more pressing problem.

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How can the recovery of Natural Resources
be increased to meet manned ever growing

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need flowers care underground
engineering may be one of the answers

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nuclear explosions deep underground break

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and splintered huge areas of rock these
massive effect may permit highly promising

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recovery of resources
that have been impossible

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or economically impractical
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By digging tunnels deep into the
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Teams have been able to examine

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and evaluate the impacts of underground
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achieved with various explosive yields
in various types of run industries

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and research institutes in the United
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I recognize many potential uses for power
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how. Nuclear explosions could
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and the rate of recovery
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and oil reserves by effectively
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that these valuable resources can flow
through they can see how copper could be

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extracted from the ground more efficiently
as a nuclear explosion shattered the

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surrounding rock letting through the
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and carry it to the surface they can
see how the huge area of broken

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and fractured grab could be used for
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storing natural gas near its
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that could seat down underground
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or even for this building of chemical waste
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The mining industry has seen another
significant potential for underground nuclear

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engineering this potential was actually
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following underground nuclear explosions
nuclear explosions would break

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and crush mineral deposits perhaps
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Prior to extracting the

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or by conventional underground mining
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water investigation and development
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and industry working hand in hand with
the exactly what role power share

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underground engineering can play in the
lobbying these Diable natural resources.