To stop a gas leak is a complicated and risky procedure. 1966, to tackle fires in five gas leaks, the Government of the USSR tried everything, including water pumping through the hydraulic rwgmatwsis, but he was unable to extinguish the fire. Eventually, They had to use a 30 kiloton nuclear bomb.

Scientists have made a deep borehole 6.000 measures close to the source of the leak. Then sank the bomb into the hole drilling, cover the hole with cement, and triggered the device. Nuclear explosion extinguished the fire within 23 seconds, stifling the leak with the disruption of several tonnes of Earth in the subsoil. The most striking is that no radioactivity was detected in the area after the explosion.