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."

Comments

Re:This will get no play because it is nuclear..

[Jenming]

hehe, your mom

Re:What's the scariest part of this?

[Scrameustache]

... finding out that the USSR was so careless they had six "petrocalamities" worth trying this trick on?

I'm actually thinking that number seems low. Russians do not give a fuck about the environment, human rights, or anything besides their own aggrandizement.