Just because the stuff that would otherwise be fallout doesn’t go into the air doesn’t mean it doesn’t go somewhere it is not particularly helpful. Also does the word tsunami mean anything to you?
Really, the best thing to do with the well would be to salvage it, even if another oilco has to do it because BP is so incompetent. However, the Bummer admin has nixed measures, such as barriers or oil dispersants (helps it biodegrade) that BP has suggested. It is just a fuster cluck.
“Just because the stuff that would otherwise be fallout doesn’t go into the air doesn’t mean it doesn’t go somewhere it is not particularly helpful. Also does the word tsunami mean anything to you?”
Dozens of Nukes have gone off in the atmosphere and ocean with NO tsunamis. Similarly radiation is only harmful if you are close by and in the right path.
Otherwise (for one small example) I live under 10 miles from TMI, as do a growing population, and that had DIRECT air releases of steam and other gases. We are in a thriving and growing area. NO proven or documented health problems.
The worst documented thing of TMI accident was power prices had a spike in price for a while.
I thought hippy-nuke-phobia was gone as people got smarter and lived by the facts rather than by irrational fears.
Guess you proved that (hippy-nuke-phobia) is still alive and well. As a note, if you use the HD aluminum foil it makes a better emergency helmet.
A tsunami requires the shifting of an active fault line. No such animal here.