Why a zot? This is a serious topic, and it’s not too close to land. A mile of water does a lot to limit the range of damage, and a relatively small nuke would do the job.
The word “nuke” or “nuclear” scares people, though.
Thank you!!. The reader makes my point we need to get away from the leftist propaganda that all nuclear technology is dangerous, polluting, toxic etc. We would feed millions more and save billions in dollars if we would only use Food Irradiation. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation
# 1970 Establishment of the International Food Irradiation Project (IFIP), head quarters at the Federal Research Centre for Food Preservation, Karlsruhe, Germany
# 1980 FAO/IAEA/WHO Joint Expert Committee on Food Irradiation recommends the clearance generally up to 10 kGy “overall average dose”
# 1981/1983 End of IFIP after reaching its goals
# 1983 Codex Alimentarius General Standard for Irradiated Foods: any food at a maximum “overall average dose” of 10 kGy
# 1984 International Consultative Group on Food Irradiation (ICGFI) becomes the successor of IFIP
# 1997 FAO/IAEA/WHO Joint Study Group on High-Dose Irradiation recommends to lift any upper dose limit
# 2003 Codex Alimentarius General Standard for Irradiated Foods: no longer any upper dose limit
# 2004 ICGFI ends
Just because the stuff that would otherwise be fallout doesn’t go into the air doesn’t mean it doesn’t go somewhere it is not particularly helpful. Also does the word tsunami mean anything to you?
Really, the best thing to do with the well would be to salvage it, even if another oilco has to do it because BP is so incompetent. However, the Bummer admin has nixed measures, such as barriers or oil dispersants (helps it biodegrade) that BP has suggested. It is just a fuster cluck.
This is in no way a serious topic for those of us old enough to remember real spills.
The tin foil hat crowd grows tiresome in short order.