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That makes me wonder whether it would be feasible to build a bomb type reactor. Detonate a hydrogen bomb in an underground lake 10km down, then extract the stea
by weberer 3y ago
That makes me wonder whether it would be feasible to build a bomb type reactor. Detonate a hydrogen bomb in an underground lake 10km down, then extract the steam over the next few days.
- neaden 3y agoIf you've got a 10 KM tunnel bored into the earth you could just build a geothermal power plant and not need the nuclear aspect at all.
- cobbal 3y agoThey did consider using nukes as a fracking device to aid in geothermal power plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare#Proposed_nuclear_projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare#Proposed_nuc... (near the bottom of the list)
- pfdietz 3y agoYou have described "Project PACER". It turned out not to be economical.