Nuclear Explosion Engineering; for translation and presentation to Junta de Energia Nuclear Madrid, Spain September 17, 1969, Technical Report No. 115

Stanford, CA: Stanford University, Department of Civil Engineering, 1969. Wraps. [2], 31, [34 unpaginated pages of references, tables and figures. Ink marks, stains and wear on cover. Tear at top of spine. Paul Kruger is Professor of Nuclear Chemistry at Stanford, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1962. Prior to this academic position, he was associated with Nuclear Science and Engineering Corp. and Hazelton-Nuclear. Dr. Kruger's research interests are in radioisotope engineering and in environmental radioactivity; he did his graduate studies at the University of Chicago after earning a BS degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Plowshare program had been in existence for about a dozen years when Dr. Kruger produced this report/presentation. The objective of the Plowshare program was to develop the technology for the constructive uses of nuclear explosives. the stimulus for this development was the economic advantages available from this source of tremendous instant energy. The interactions of non-technical considerations, such as international treaties, have had significant impact on the program. The phenomenology of the nuclear explosion may be described in several stages from the detonation through the final configuration of the resulting geonuclear effects. these effects are influenced by the explosive yield, the depth of burial, and the properties of the surrounding media. configurations included excavated craters, rubble mounds, and underground rubble chimneys. The configurations may be predicted by empirical scaling laws or hydrodynamic models calculated by computer. The development of explosion configurations into viable applications is based on the engineering properties of the materials associated with each of the zones of varying geonuclear effects. Safety considerations include (1) distribution and transport of the produced radioactive materials by venting and fallout, by hydrologic transport, and by product contamination, and (2) the structures response to the propagated seismic energy and air blast. Applications were being evaluated in many disciplines; for example; in civil construction, in industrial development of natural resources, and in scientific experiments. Several specific application experiments were either in progress or under feasibility study. Among the figures presented are: Cavity-Chimney Formation History, Crater Formation History, The Cabriolet Excavation Experiment, Retard Formation History, The Sulky Experiment, and Applications of Deeply Buried Nuclear Explosions. Condition: Good.

Keywords: Nuclear Explosions, Civil Engineering, Plowshare, Geonuclear Effects, Deeply Buried, Radioactive Materials, Hydrologic Transport, Contamination, Cavity-Chimney

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