In the mid-1960s, the Soviet Ministry of Water Resources decided to build a huge reservoir in Kazakhstan to irrigate the desert, which could greatly improve people's livelihood, and if construction was made with construction machinery, the Soviets estimated that it would not necessarily be completed in 70 years, economic construction would not wait for anyone, and no difficulty would be difficult for the country to defeat the socialist benchmark. At the time when the Ministry of Water Resources was at a loss, the Soviet Ministry of Nuclear Industry made a big move, how difficult was this? On the nuclear bomb.
So Soviet engineers really installed a small nuclear bomb with a capacity of 110,000 tons at 170 meters underground, and then detonated, after a loud bang, a 450-meter-deep reservoir was blown up, only need simple maintenance, you can pour 6.4 million square meters of water, the result is that some engineers are worried about the existence of lethal nuclear radiation in the reservoir, the radiation rate of the detected craters dropped to the natural level after one night, in order to dispel the concerns of the local people, At that time, the Soviet Minister of Water Resources personally jumped into the reservoir to swim, and the hard-core Minister of Water Resources finally lived to the age of 93 before dying. After that, the Soviet Union also carried out more than 120 nuclear bombs to build people's livelihood. These projects smashed 11 artificial lakes, two canals, and some are still in use today. The civilianization of nuclear bombs is economical and affordable. However, at present, only the Soviets have used it.
