[palmer]

When this well could have crushed shut by a tactical nuke 5000ft down below the ocean floor

To crush it shut (rock moves and pinches off pipe), we would have to drill down next to the existing pipe to stick the nuke in the proper spot. Might work, might not, but any kind of explosion near the surface will just fracture rock and pipe and make the leak worse.

[lentulusgracchus]

Might work, might not, but any kind of explosion near the surface will just fracture rock and pipe and make the leak worse.

And in the case of a nuke, contaminate the product with isotopic cesium for the next 75,000 years.