As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, experts from across the globe are touting their crisis response plans in the media. From caps to relief wells, it seems we’ve heard it all, but with concerns growing by the day some more extreme measures are beginning to draw attention. Reuters has the story:
His face wracked by age and his voice rasping after decades of chain-smoking coarse tobacco, the former long-time Russian Minister of nuclear energy and veteran Soviet physicist Viktor Mikhailov knows just how to fix BP’s oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
“A nuclear explosion over the leak,” he says nonchalantly puffing a cigarette as he sits in a conference room at the Institute of Strategic Stability, where he is a director. “I don’t know what BP is waiting for, they are wasting their time. Only about 10 kilotons of nuclear explosion capacity and the problem is solved.”
Believe it or not, there are actually a fair number of scientists and government officials discussing this very solution. One would hope that the U.S. Government, which is officially denying the viability of any such program, considers this truly to be a solution of last resort.
The BCM Blogging Team
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