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#0 Your professionals made mistakes that created the original blowout

Someone apparently got in a hurry--which gets more people killed in this industry than any other single cause. They won't be working on the relief wells, 'cause they're dead.

#1 Your professionals effed up the recent repair jobs and top kills

Sometimes, when something is broken, it can't be fixed. I guess you never owned an old car, or you'd know that.

The top kill was problematic from the start. It wasn't "effed up", it just did not work.

#2 no seawater will be rushing into the hole

Oh. this has been done in the Gulf of Mexico's geology, with 2200 psi of seawater above, an estimated 15000psi of producing formation below, and it isn't going to leak. Even though completely dry tests run in Nevada, in the desert, did. Right.

#3 some nuclear physicists have been consulting with the White House

This isn't just about the nuke, this is about the geology as well, geology BP hasn't released, according to one of your other links, and which I have found nuclear physicists to be particularly ignorant of, even though they may well be brilliant in their field.

#4 what do you care how it turns out? You are far far away

I may be a petroleum geologist, but despite all the envirowhacko propaganda about eeevil oil, I do not want any ecosystem to get trashed, even temporarily.

I have seen the effects of ill-considered 'solutions' on an estuary, and the one I held my commercial fishing license in was killed--and has not recovered fourty years later, by ill considered solutions to problems--and it was done by a government agency. Until then, Blue Crab were plentiful there, as were oysters, fish, and a species of clam no longer found there that made an excellent chowder.

That estuary forms one of the boundaries to land that has been in my family over 350 years. Yeah. It's personal.

So, if you would, excuse the hell out of me while I try to talk people out of clamoring for another government sponsored 'solution' with a very high probability of creating a far larger and longer lived mess than the known solutions for the sake of supposedly taking care of the problem a whole month earlier than the generally accepted method will.

You can trot out all the theoretical physicists you want, and that is every bit as appropriate as sending a team of neurosurgeons down to help you fix your car.

Their sheepskins might be impressive, but it is a misapplication of mental horsepower--and not one person who knows the nuts and bolts of the oil and gas industry in the bunch.

Look up the guys who have been known as the go-to guys in the industry for stopping a wild well, guys like Red Adair or Boots and Coots, and see how much they studied nuclear physics.