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Los Alamos staff patented a nuclear-heated rock-melting tunneling drill in 1972

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Los Alamos inventors patented a nuclear-heated rock-melting (subterrene) tunneling drill (US 3,693,731, filed 1971, issued 1972). 'Numerous patents' is not established by this one record.

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documentspatents.google.comSeven Los Alamos inventors; assigned to US Atomic Energy Commission; filed 8 Jan 1971, published 26 Sep 1972; nuclear heat source.

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Claim

Los Alamos inventors patented a nuclear-heated rock-melting (subterrene) tunneling drill (US 3,693,731, filed 1971, issued 1972). 'Numerous patents' is not established by this one record.