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According to historian Dr. Michael Payne : "the cabinet of Alberta Premier Ernest Manning seriously considered allowing the underground detonation of a 9 kilotonne atomic bomb at Cheechum Crossing in northern Alberta in an experiment to determine if nuclear power might help remove oil from the oilsands."
Archive 2008-04-01 Dana 2008
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Anti-fracking campaigner Will Cottrell, chairman of the Brighton Energy Co-operative, claimed a 10-well fracking facility was "like setting off a 4.4 kilotonne nuclear bomb".
The Guardian World News Robert Booth 2012
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For its value-added products division, the company has expanded the capacities of bright bars to 36 kilotonne per annum (from 18 ktpa in FY10), conveyor cords to 4.8 kpta (from 3.6 ktpa earlier) and OT cables to 6 ktpa.
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And a few kilotonne nuke leaving a crater that would "ruin the man in the moon" appearance?
Slashdot: Science 2010
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He has now begun simulating the effect of nudging an asteroid with a smaller nuclear explosion - less than 1 kilotonne - 1 metre below its surface.
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But other experts swiftly downgraded the test to a kilotonne or even less.
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Months after the Pokhran tests, Kalam had said that the thermonuclear device produced a 45 kilotonne yield.
SiliconIndia.com 2009
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- less than 1 kilotonne - 1 meter below its surface.
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