-=> 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)=

 WC> I thought of the explosive solution.
 WC> I think it may just fragment the seabed leaving it porous to
 WC> further oil upwelling like quicksand it kept mobile in flowing water
 WC> 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.

ENJOY!!!

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