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I tend to agree. A nuke isn’t going to necessarily stop the leaks. I can think of several things that might work and all depend on the soil between the bottom and top of the well. I wrote a software system for Tyco valves, Anderson Greenwood, for sizing industrial pressure relief valves and controls used on some of those drilling rigs. It performed the fluid dynamic calculations based on such things as pressures and temperatures and materials. The amount of force on that oil is amazing. I have total respect for those engineers that do the drilling and I have complete and total faith in their ideas on how to stop the flow. Much of it is trial and error, so we should just give them latitude, watch the show and applaud once they succeed.