Obama Sends Nuclear Experts To Tackle BP Oil Spill

An anonymous reader writes "The US has sent a team of nuclear physicists to help BP plug the 'catastrophic' flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico from its leaking Deepwater Horizon well, as the Obama administration becomes frustrated with the oil giant's inability to control the situation. The five-man team — which includes a man who helped develop the first hydrogen bomb in the 1950s — is the brainchild of Steven Chu, President Obama's Energy Secretary." Let's hope this doesn't mean they actually try the nuclear option. In other offshore drilling news, reader mygoditsfullofdoom informs us that a Venezuelan gas rig has sunk in the Caribbean (with no loss of life). This one is being laid at the feet of Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA, which hasn't exactly been regarded as uber-competent "after President Hugo Chavez fired half the company's managers and senior engineers following a 2002 strike."

Comments

Re:BP's fucked.. but look, over there, a communist

[Anonymous Coward]

Instead of refuting the Reuters article, or refuting it's relevance to the BP story, you've chosen to attack kdawson. I wonder why...

It makes you uncomfortable that he seems to have a point, doesn't it?

Re:The Nuclear Experts will use the LHC...

[TheKidWho]

The LHC isn't American.

Sorry to burst your nertasy.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

[esten]

In mother Russia bomb beats oil.

Re:It's different when it's someone else!

[slick7]

Oh like "W" made us a better place to live. Yeah right.

Re:yes, yes he could

[phantomfive]

I know it's popular to bash the US, but please, I call for some sanity in country bashing! Both BP and Reuters (who wrote the article about the Venezuela platform) are British countries.

Ha! What do you expect from a country that puts Dr. Who and Keeping Up Appearances on the same channel! Those self-absorbed chrads!!!