Posted on 05/04/2010 12:33:17 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Nuke that slick By JULIA IOFFE
Underwater nuclear test, 1958.
As BP prepares to lower a four-story, 70-ton dome over the oil gusher under the Gulf of Mexico, the Russians — the world’s biggest oil producers — have some advice for their American counterparts: nuke it.
Komsomoloskaya Pravda, the best-selling Russian daily, reports that in Soviet times such leaks were plugged with controlled nuclear blasts underground. The idea is simple, KP writes: “the underground explosion moves the rock, presses on it, and, in essence, squeezes the well’s channel.”
Yes! It’s so simple, in fact, that the Soviet Union, a major oil exporter, used this method five times to deal with petrocalamities. The first happened in Uzbekistan, on September 30, 1966 with a blast 1.5 times the strength of the Hiroshima bomb and at a depth of 1.5 kilometers. KP also notes that subterranean nuclear blasts were used as much as 169 times in the Soviet Union to accomplish fairly mundane tasks like creating underground storage spaces for gas or building canals.
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If this report has validity and it works, then do it.
As much difficulty as the folks are having manipulating relatively simple devices at that depth, I doubt many of us would feel all that comfortable with the same guys using nukes!
This article fails to mention the insertion point of the nuke is Teheran.
I’ve heard others say that the ocean floor in the Gulf, and particularly in this area, is so porous that a nuclear blast would only open more leaks.
It’s the only way to be sure.
We can’t do that! Think of the radiation that will kill the fish!/s
Do it from orbit
when a problem comes along
you must nuke it
before the oil sits out too long
you must nuke it
when something’s going wrong
you must nuke it
now nuke it
into shape
shape it up
get straight
go forward
move ahead
try to detect it
it’s not too late
to nuke it
nuke it good!
I am a DEVO fan as well
Don’t forget your Energy Dome! LOL!
Nuke it from orbit, baby!
How to get rid of the oil slick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s1MspmfEwg
Yep. The Gulf naturally seeps lots of oil all the time. It’s constantly leaking oil. Approximately one to two Exxon Valdez worth seeps naturally into the Gulf every year.
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-40428
“If this report has validity and it works, then do it.”
The US has experience in underground nuclear explosions in gas wells too. Project Rulison and Gas Buggy in the 1970s.
They were attempts to fracture the rock in very low permeability formations in order to create improved flow channels tthorugh which gas can be produced.
The problem they found out was that the blast was so hot it melted all the rock surrounding the well and turned it essentially into glass. It was the reverse of what was intended.
So yes, you can probably stop the flow from the blowout.
Good Idea, Hicks!
Transocean/BP has started drilling a relief well with planned TD of 18,000 ft. On completion, this will be used to pump heavy mud to kill the wild well. Eventually it will be cemented. Estimated drilling time is two to three months.
This is the conventional way of controlling a blowout, and I think it’s the proper way to go.
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