Review of the salmon experiment a nuclear explosion in salt

Rawson, D.E.; Taylor, Robert W.; Springer, Donald L.

doi:10.1007/bf00627208

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“…Measurements made via drill back, roughly 5 months after the event, showed the cavity to be slightly larger than 17 m in radius [Rawson et al, 1967]. Salmon was a well-tamped explosion with a yield of 5.3 kt, shot at a depth of 830 m in the Tatum salt dome, near Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on October 22, 1964.…”

Section: Nuclear Explosions In Saltmentioning

confidence: 98%

Seismic decoupling with chemical and nuclear explosions in salt

Glenn¹,

Goldstein²

1994

J. Geophys. Res.

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An extensive series of simulations was performed of underground explosions in salt, using both chemical and nuclear explosives. In both cases, the radius of the initial emplacement cavity was varied from the fully tamped configuration to as large as 80 m/kt⅓; when not fully tamped, the cavity was assumed initially to contain air at ambient temperature and pressure. In the nuclear source case, the simulations are shown to be in good agreement with the Salmon/Sterling events conducted by the United States and with recently released Russian data on a similar pair of explosions in an Azgir salt dome. Simulation of the U.S. Cowboy series of chemical explosions in a Louisiana salt mine are also shown to be in very good agreement with the experimental data; however, the constitutive model for the salt that best explains these data is different from that derived for Salmon; both salt models are amply supported by laboratory and field data. The main result of these simulations is that cavity decoupling with chemical explosives is much less efficient than with nuclear explosives. Although maximum decoupling factors, ƒmax, near 200 may be attainable with either of the two sources, the cavity size required to achieve this value appears to be >40 m/kt⅓. For cavity radii half as large, ƒmax is roughly 4 times lower with nuclear explosives, and lower by another factor of 4 with chemical sources. Moreover, if the initial cavity radius is a more modest 10 m/kt⅓, ƒmax < 3 even with a nuclear source.

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Section: Nuclear Explosions In Saltmentioning

confidence: 98%

Seismic decoupling with chemical and nuclear explosions in salt

Glenn¹,

Goldstein²

1994

J. Geophys. Res.

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“…Heard and Carter's data f. or motion on the easiest slip system shows that with a principal stress difference of 50 bars, a steady creep rate ,of 1.4 X 10-8/see is achieved at 180øC. This temperature appears consistent with some sort of average temperature through the plastic zone as indicated by Figure 8 of Rawson et al [1967].…”

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Calculation of shrinkage of the salmon cavity

Wells¹

1969

J. Geophys. Res.

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“…Confirmation of cavity decoupling in a nuclear experiment was made in the STERLING event (0.38-kt yield) 13 , which was fired in the Tatum salt dome (near Hattiesburg, Mississippi) on December 3, 1966, more than two years after the SALMON event (5.3-kt yield) 14 created the cavity. A maximum decoupling factor 70 ± 20 was determined for STERLING, indicating that full decoupling may not have been achieved.…”

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Seismic Verification of Underground Explosions

Glenn

1986

Shock Waves in Condensed Matter

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Review of the salmon experiment a nuclear explosion in salt

Cited by 21 publications

References 13 publications

Seismic decoupling with chemical and nuclear explosions in salt

Seismic decoupling with chemical and nuclear explosions in salt

Calculation of shrinkage of the salmon cavity

Seismic Verification of Underground Explosions

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