[HiTech RedNeck]

Exploding a nuke on Bikini Atoll is not the same as doing it within 50 miles of populated mainland.

[steve0]

I like how your so scientific and all dismissing it out of hand in a knee jerk fashion. All options must be on the table. This is proven technology. See: A first test in the fall of 1966 proved successful in sealing up a well in southern Uzbekistan, and so the Russians used nukes four more times for capping runaway wells.

“The second ‘success’ gave Soviet scientists great confidence in the use of this new technique for rapidly and effectively controlling ran away gas and oil wells,” according to a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) report on the Soviet Union’s peaceful uses of nuclear explosions.

A last attempt took place in 1981, but failed perhaps because of poor positioning, according to a U.S. Department of Energy report.” Thank you for proving my point about the anti-nuclear hysteria the left has spread to Americans. I suppose your against food irradiation?

[The Cajun]

Give up HTRN, too many folks here know nothing about oil wells and the only knowledge they have about nukes comes from movies and comic books.