nuclear-news

Nuclear solution to oil spill could be worse than the problem

BP Oil Spill: The Nuclear Option, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Susan Deily-Swearingen, 26 May 2010, “……One solution that is getting increased attention on the web and in the European press is the terrifying sounding nuclear option which, essentially, would detonate a nuclear bomb underground near the oil well shaft……………What are the lasting effects of such an explosion? Is there a potential for them to be even worse than the pollution from the dispersants already used to “solve” or abate the problem?

Even more practically, perhaps, how long would it take to drill a mile below the Gulf to insert the bomb given that a relief well which is currently being drilled may take another 90 days? Should we take a chance on a delayed solution when there might be faster and less frightening sounding options available?……..

Today, the administration sent a group of nuclear physicists to the Gulf to help stem the tide of the disaster. Again according to the Telegraph, one of the scientists described a “five-hour meeting [which] involved a ‘very deep dive’ into the situation at hand, with ‘lots of nuclear physicists and all sorts of people coming up with some quite good ideas, actually.'” Asked to elaborate, he said they had “come up with one good idea,” but said no more.

May 27, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radioactive, reactors