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by noja 35 days ago
What are the side-effects of regularly detonating nuclear bombs at that depth?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_nuclear_weapons_te...

seems it usually happened at lesser depths, and for ones deep enough to contain debris, the main effects were geological, from the actual explosion? not what i expected tbh

I'm not sure how this question would be relevant. Nuclear bombs are impractical for power generation and a nuclear reactor is not ever going to turn into a nuclear bomb.
"Project PACER, carried out at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the mid-1970s, explored the possibility of a fusion power system that would involve exploding small hydrogen bombs"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_PACER