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gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
: The AEC's Project Plowshare. Several civil engineering tests were done
: with nuclear explosives here in the US under this project. ...  Other 
: projects, such as creating undergound storage caverns for natural gas, 
: compressed air for electric peak shaving plants, and for oil storage 
: were also explored. After an initial purge of loose radioactives, the 
: caverns would be cheap and effective storage chambers for such light 
: atoms since neutron activation is not an issue. Except for popular
: hysteria, those projects remain attractive today.

Correct me if I'm wrong. While visiting Los Alamos last year I asked about
the (only?) test, which was in Colorado and attempted to release natural
gas.  The experment was a failure because the residual radation levels did
not decline sufficiently, and the released gas was unusable. These
projects remain unattractive today due to radioactive contamination, not
hysteria.