Navigation channel improvement of the Alto Paraná River, Argentina and Paraguay : peaceful uses for nuclear explosives
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- Author/Creator
- Danilchik, Walter, author.
- Contributor
- Geological Survey (U.S.) issuing body.
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, commissioning body.
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- Includes bibliographical references (page 24).
- Summary
- Use of nuclear explosives for cratering excavation of hard rock may be a practical and economical means of opening a navigation channel through the Apipe rapids of the Rio Alto Parana. Such a channel could accelerate development of a large undeveloped area along the Rio Alto Parana in Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. About 20 nuclear explosions, with energy yield from 10 to 250 kilotons, could over-excavate a channel 3,600 meters long in hard rock where conventional construction at $11 per cubic meter is now considered uneconomical. The by-product value of broken rock produced by cratering explosions would be significant and might make the overall cost of nuclear excavation less than conventional excavation costs.
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- Publication date
- 1966
