Is Obama going to bring in his nuke buddies from Pakistan, North Korea and Iran?
Posted on 05/15/2010 7:13:20 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The US has sent a team of nuclear physicists to help BP plug the "catastrophic" flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico from its leaking Deepwater Horizon well, as the Obama administration becomes frustrated with the oil giant's inability to control the situation.
The five-man team – which includes a man who helped develop the first hydrogen bomb in the 1950s – is the brainchild of Steven Chu, President Obama's Energy Secretary.
He has charged the men with finding solutions to stop the flow of oil.
President Obama yesterday promised a "relentless" effort to resolve the problem as he criticised the "cozy relationship" BP and other oil companies have with US regulators in Washington.
He also denounced the attempts by executives from BP, Transocean and Haliburtion to blame each other during this week's congressional hearings into the rig disaster. "I will not tolerate more finger pointing or irresponsibility." Mr Obama said.
The five scientists visited BP's main crisis centre in Houston earlier this week, along with Mr Chu, and are to continue to work with the company's scientists and external advisers to reach an answer.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Hayward said the five-hour meeting involved a "very deep dive" into the situation at hand, with "lots of nuclear physicists and all sorts of people coming up with some quite good ideas actually."
Pressed further about the meeting, he said they had "come up with one good idea" but declined to elaborate.
The five include 82-year-old Richard Garwin, who designed the first hydrogen bomb, and Tom Hunter, head of the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
BP already has 500 experts from 100 different organizations working on the problem.
“”I will not tolerate more finger pointing or irresponsibility.” Mr Obama said.”
I would tell Obozo to go “suck an egg”.
I see how this is shaping up now.
The leak is about to be fixed by BP and the teams working on it, but Obozo has to ride in on his black horse, along with some pointy headed nuke scientist, so that he can claim that he has saved the world.
This is not the Onion reporting. Leadership like this is scary.
Unfortunately all the MLB ballplayers were busy this time of year.
Imagine the gulf glowing in the dark for weeks..the weird fish to be caught in the future, unexpected water fallout in the Florida panhandle..oh well.
Didn’t even know we still had Nuc experts anymore. Thought we killed that industry decades ago. What are they still doing hanging around?
I agree! We should! We’ve tested them atolls and such, why not here? I would love to see Obama consider this and really piss off his anti-nuke pals. Hahaha!!
Not gonna happen, though.
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-Taken from a novelty tune from a somewhat miss-spent youth-!
Well .. I still think it’s an insane idea.
I’ll be happy if it turns out to be a good thing.
Yikes, look what the nukes did to Obama.
A small tactical nuke will fracture the sea floor, melt much of it into glass, seal the well and it's perfectly tamped by a mile of water.
What are they afraid of, glowing jellyfish? They're already glowing at that depth.
Isn’t Chu the guy who thinks if everyone painted their roofs green, we could reduce global warming?
It would render the area off limits to fishing and drilling pretty much forever.
Maybe that’s really Michelle. The hips look suspiciously familar.
Correction: Not green, white
http://www.prweb.com/releases/steven-chu-paint/green-roofs-white/prweb2477584.htm
Typical liberal thinking. People are interchangable. “It’s all that science-stuff, anyway.” How did we ever allow our society to empower such fools?
Plus, who’s going to dive down there...it’s too deep for my watch.
No, Chu is the guy who thinks that if all our roofs were mirrors, we would reduce global warming.
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