I believe that the federal government should immediately detonate a nuclear device in a well 5000 ft below the ocean floor adjacent to and close to (10 feet away from) the leaking BP well. This action would immediately stop the flow of oil and protect the Louisiana estuaries from further damage.
Nuclear contamination from an under-the-seabed detonation would be contained greatly, and the escaping radiation would be attenuated greatly through the 5000 feet of water. Hopefully the Russians would their experience with us.
The contaminated materials from a nuclear explosion 5000 feet below the ocean floor would be contained at that location – as it was contained during underground tests of nuclear devices in the 1950′s and 1960′s following abandonment of atmospheric nuclear testing.
There was very little radiation emitted to the atmosphere from those underground test activities. Very small amounts of contaminated particles were introduced into the atmosphere.
I am also concerned about radiation contamination, but the nuclear engineers and scientists at Oak Ridge, Amarillo, Alamogordo, White Sands and Rocky Flats could probably provide us with some fairly accurate calculated radiation result predictions.
This discussion should have occurred weeks ago! Does anyone out there have any other ideas concerning stopping the oil flow?
Gerald R. Spencer, P.E.
President, Spencer Engineers, Inc.
Houston, Texas
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Posted June 2, 2010 at 1:40 pm, in Free Speech Zone
June 2nd, 2010 at 7:51 pm
I have not done any nuclear protection factor calculations since 1970, but without calculating the results, I do believe that an underground nuclear explosion at this location would cause a Louisiana Shrimper less radiation body absorption in 10 years of shrimping than he would get with one chest xray.