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Energy and technology review

Description: Articles are presented on optical fibers used in nuclear test diagnostics, understanding the physics of explosion products, and arms control in the eighties. (GHT)
Date: September 1, 1981
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Underground Nuclear Detonations

Description: Since 1952 eight nuclear explosions have been fired underground at the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site. The explosions have varied in energy release from 55 tons to 19,000 tons of TNT equivalent and were carried out at depths varying from shallow burial to produce cratering to those depths at which no visible effects appeared on the surface. The major experimental data from these explosions, as well as the phenomenology of the deeper shots, are summarized hero. (auth)
Date: July 1, 1959
Creator: Johnson, G. W.; Higgins, G. H. & Violet, C. E.
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Non-military Uses of Nuclear Explosions

Description: Introduction. With the development of fission and subsequently of thermonuclear explosives, a very large source of cheap energy has become available. The problem of using this energy for peaceful purposes safely and economically presents itself as one of the most interesting and important of our time. In explosions the energy is released very suddenly. Conversion of this sudden release of energy at extremely high temperature and pressure into the form of useful work, either mechanical or chemic… more
Date: January 6, 1960
Creator: Brown, Harold
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Seismic verification of underground explosions

Description: The first nuclear test agreement, the test moratorium, was made in 1958 and lasted until the Soviet Union unilaterally resumed testing in the atmosphere in 1961. It was followed by the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which prohibited nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater. In 1974 the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) was signed, limiting underground tests after March 1976 to a maximum yield of 250 kt. The TTBT was followed by a treaty limiting peaceful nuclear explosio… more
Date: June 1, 1985
Creator: Glenn, Lewis A.
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Chemical tracers in Hybla Gold working room. Final report

Description: Chemical tracers were placed in the working room for the Hybla Gold event to aid in diagnosing flow of high-energy gases down expanding pipes leading from the room. If post-shot reentry is made, the tracers could provide valuable knowledge concerning pipe closure, mixing of gases from various locations, and volume of gas flow into various sizes of pipes.
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Killian, B.G. & McQueen, J.H.
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Ground Truth Collection for Mining Explosions in Northern Fennoscandia and Northwestern Russia

Description: We concluded comprehensive ground truth collection at the Khibiny, Olenegorsk, Kovdor, and Zapolyarnyi mines, and have basic information on 2,052 explosions. In the past two years we used this ground truth information to extract waveform data from the ARCES array and a number of regional stations (KEV, LVZ, APA) as well as from six stations that we deployed along two lines stretching between the Khibiny Massif mines and the region around the ARCES array. We calculated P/S ratios using the ARCES… more
Date: July 13, 2005
Creator: Harris, D. B.; Ringdal, R.; Kremenetskaya, E.; Mykkeltveit, S.; Rock, D. W.; Maercklin, N. et al.
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Influence of rock properties on methods for the verification of underground nuclear explosions

Description: A limestone for which mechanical behavior is well determined is used as a basis for a study of the effects of mechanical property variations on apparent seismic yield for contained nuclear explosions. The resulting variations in apparent seismic yield, up to 25% for this study, form an irreducible lower limit on the accuracy of seismic yield determination if further event-specific information on the mechanical properties is unavailable. 9 refs., 4 figs.
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Dey, T.N.
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Initial concepts on energetics and mass releases during nonnuclear explosive events in fuel cycle facilities

Description: Non-nuclear explosions are one of the initiating events (accidents) considered in the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission study of formal methods for estimating the airborne release of radionuclides from fuel cycle facilities. Methods currently available to estimate the energetics and mass airborne release from the four types of non-nuclear explosive events (fast and slow physical explosions and fast and slow chemical explosions) are reviewed. The likelihood that fast physical explosions will occu… more
Date: September 1, 1986
Creator: Halverson, M.A. & Mishima, J.
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