Federal and state agencies plan to apply some of the lessons learned from Project Rulison as they try to decide how close to another underground nuclear test site that natural gas development should ...

A Texas-based exploration company has rights to drill for natural gas near Project Rulison, the site of an underground nuclear test explosion three decades ago. Though the explosion on Sept. 10, 1969, ...

The Bureau of Land Management has approved a plan by Noble Energy to drill 79 natural gas wells in the area of the Project Rulison underground nuclear blast. The project is still subject to White ...

In the case of Project Rulison, to quote a government statement issued shortly after the blast, "the contaminants of concern for the subsurface of the Rulison Site are expected to include radioactive ...

At first, it seemed no one could stop Project Rulison — a plan to frack Colorado's natural gas with a nuclear detonation. Set deep in a hole south of Battlement Mesa, the 40-kiloton bomb went off ...

“Atomic blast today,” announced The Aspen Times on Sept. 4, 1969. “Project Rulison, a 40-kiloton nuclear blast set to be detonated 8442 feet underground about 60 miles northeast of Aspen, was expected ...