DAVE DRUM wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-
WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-
Has anyone considered what a small tactical nuke would accomplish WRT sealing off the leak? Or estimated the trade off of some nuclear contamination versus the on-going environmental damage being perpetrated
by the BP oil gusher?
Atoms for peace! Bv)=
I thought of the explosive solution.
I think it may just fragment the seabed leaving it porous to
further oil upwelling like quicksand it kept mobile in flowing water
above an aquifer.
I literally do not know how an atom kernel explosion would react a mile under water. But, the nukes set off in the American desert and at the Bikini atoll (shallow water) left the earth at ground zero fused into a hard volcanic glass.
Ground bursts are notoriously dirty as regards to radioactive fallout.
The Russians are said to have stopped a few oil leaks this way.
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