[AFreeBird]

So your idea is to create more cracks in the rock and give the oil more avenues to escape?

[Former Proud Canadian]

The Russians used this successfully to stop runaway wells. The idea is to fuse the rock over the well, thus capping it.

[chessplayer]

“So your idea is to create more cracks in the rock and give the oil more avenues to escape?”

The nukers are hell-bent on making a horrible disaster a super-horrible disaster.