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If you've got a 10 KM tunnel bored into the earth you could just build a geothermal power plant and not need the nuclear aspect at all.

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They did consider using nukes as a fracking device to aid in geothermal power plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare#Proposed_nuc... (near the bottom of the list)

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