http://inhabitat.com/2010/06/03/experts-suggest-nuking-the-gulf-oil-leak-us-says-heck-no/
Every tactic that BP has tried so far to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has failed. Now, experts are saying forget all those cleverly named solutions, and letâs just nuke the thing. The idea has been floating around for awhile and apparently was successfully used by the Soviet Union decades ago to stop a gushing oil well. But the US is saying âno way.â Never mind the destruction that a nuclear blast could cause to the already ravaged Gulf of Mexico and the radiation it would spew into the atmosphere, it turns out this tactic is also against international law.
Experts and talking heads have been all over the news lately spewing ideas about how to stop this catastrophe and now even the news is joining in. John Roberts, a CNN reporter suggested last week that BP, âdrill a hole, drop a nuke in and seal up the well.â The idea could technically work, melting the rock around the well and sealing it, but the Obama administration says no. Stephanie Mueller, a spokeswoman for the Energy Department said that no one in the administration was considering this idea, and one senior official told the New York Times, âitâs crazy.â Turns out itâs actually against the arms treaties that the United States has signed and would look terrible against President Obamaâs recent efforts to stop nuclear proliferation.
Meanwhile the official Deepwater Horizon response page is so desperate that itâs taking suggestions. Theyâve got a little button where you can write in and give them your best answer to solving this enormous problem. Theyâve already recieved 20,000 suggestions and they note theyâll read every one. If your suggestion is considered feasible youâll be contacted by BP â just do us a favor and name it something intelligent because we canât take anymore âjunk shotsâ. Until a fix is found, letâs just hope that this whole disaster leads to the creation of better engineered solutions in the future. Resorting to nuclear bombs is never a good sign.
Every tactic that BP has tried so far to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has failed. Now, experts are saying forget all those cleverly named solutions, and letâs just nuke the thing. The idea has been floating around for awhile and apparently was successfully used by the Soviet Union decades ago to stop a gushing oil well. But the US is saying âno way.â Never mind the destruction that a nuclear blast could cause to the already ravaged Gulf of Mexico and the radiation it would spew into the atmosphere, it turns out this tactic is also against international law.
Experts and talking heads have been all over the news lately spewing ideas about how to stop this catastrophe and now even the news is joining in. John Roberts, a CNN reporter suggested last week that BP, âdrill a hole, drop a nuke in and seal up the well.â The idea could technically work, melting the rock around the well and sealing it, but the Obama administration says no. Stephanie Mueller, a spokeswoman for the Energy Department said that no one in the administration was considering this idea, and one senior official told the New York Times, âitâs crazy.â Turns out itâs actually against the arms treaties that the United States has signed and would look terrible against President Obamaâs recent efforts to stop nuclear proliferation.
Meanwhile the official Deepwater Horizon response page is so desperate that itâs taking suggestions. Theyâve got a little button where you can write in and give them your best answer to solving this enormous problem. Theyâve already recieved 20,000 suggestions and they note theyâll read every one. If your suggestion is considered feasible youâll be contacted by BP â just do us a favor and name it something intelligent because we canât take anymore âjunk shotsâ. Until a fix is found, letâs just hope that this whole disaster leads to the creation of better engineered solutions in the future. Resorting to nuclear bombs is never a good sign.
