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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster
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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (32608)6/29/2010 6:15:28 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 103300
 
Re: "Sure, a nuclear weapon would plug the leak, and what about the 1001 unintended consequences?"

Depends on what those 'unintended consequences' ARE I suppose.

If the relief well injection of mud fails to stop it then using explosives, or else just letting it run until the pressure drops sufficiently to plug it, might be the only two viable remaining options.

But blowing it up certainly would scupper what's left of B.P.'s investment in that well's location --- so you know B.P. probably ain't gonna like the idea! <GGG>

Re: "Radiation poisoning to all marine life throughout the Gulf and into the Caribbean and Atlantic oceans?"

Done correctly (1000 feet or so below the floor of the Gulf, in a seven inch hole with a sub-kiloton "dial-a-yield" "suitcase" nuke) there might not be any detectable residual radiation at all.

(We certainly tested these small devices well enough in Nevada in the 'seventies....)
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