Blowing the spigot and melting it and its connections and every other damn thing sky high?
I’ve read dribs and drabs on the proposal, but I don’t believe anything till I read it here.
Current thread on this issue: Why not Nuke the oil leak?
Same forum and everything.
Just saw it. Sorry, and thanx for the heads up.
The Russians did it routinely and successfully until the 60’s arms treaty. I doubt it would sell as a solution today until the situation is much worse.
They did it with gas wells on dry land. Nobody’s tried nuking an oil well a mile under water.
In any case, the time it would take to drill a new hole next to the leak and put a bomb in it is greater than the time it will take to finish the relief wells that are being drilled now.