They sculpted the Terracotta Warriors in cave-houses, then fired the statues by sealing the entry of the cave-house and turning it into a kiln, so they could fire the statues inside.
So to have any hope of interacting with one, physicists put enormous tanks of mineral oil spiked with a heavy element called gadolinium in a cave under a mountain near Daya Bay.
Thousands of antineutrinos of different flavors passed through the cave every day, and every so often an electron antineutrino passes through and hits a proton in the oil, which starts a chain reaction.