Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke

An anonymous reader writes "The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico could be stopped with an underground nuclear blast, a Russian newspaper reports. 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.' It's so simple, in fact, that the Soviet Union used this method five times to deal with petrocalamities, and it only didn't work once."

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Centralia PA has been burning for 50 years

[SuperBanana]

Yeah, those stupid Russians. Nothing like that could ever happen here in the god-fearin', freedom-lovin', capitalist United Stated of America.

Except Centralia, PA has been burning for about ten years longer than Hell's Gate, comprises 400 acres (and growing) versus Hell's Gate which is barely the size of a basketball court, and is expected to continue to burn for another 250 years.