It would cause a larger hole...

the soviet union tried something similar once i believe

>According to BP, among the most commonly raised are oil-eating bacteria, soaking up the spill with human hair and various patented devices that look like a giant shower curtains and plastic bags. Other oil spill experts have suggested that a nuclear explosion - used successfully to contain leaks in Russia - could be the most effective and least environmentally damaging way of containing the spill.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7798639/BP-scrapes-the-barrel-for-o
il-spill-ideas-as-cap-plan-falters.html

Should have done this first in my opinion.

Too bad Tsar Bomba isnt around now.

Though it would probably blow the entire coastline to pieces as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Should-we-drop-a-nuclear-bomb-o
n-the-leaky-oil-well--92789044.html

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0529/energy-expert-nuke-oil-leak/

Can anyone tell me why they aren't considering it?

>>1091610
i dont think they knew fully what they were dealing with

or BP would have to have said straight away "yeah it's bad"

stupid really, as the truth would come out eventually simpy beacuse the oil cannot be stopped

>>1091626
>but it would blow up part of the south as well

and this is a bad thing how?

>>1091609
soviet union has done it 4 TIMES and it worked all 4 times.
this is the information i have read anyway.

my GUESS is they aren't considering it because $$$$$$$$$$$

>>1091669
and new orleans

>>1091647
Why do you think? It's a nuclear bomb. Regardless of how actually safe it is, how do you think the world would respond to that?

>>1091647

Because the people, the same people who think nuclear power plants can explode like a nuclear bomb, have an irrational fear of nukes and they would be against using a nuke to stop the oil spill even when it has been proven to be the best and least ecologically damaging system.

DAMN.

>>1091673

It's not the money. It's because the US are pussies and they're afraid that other nations can act hostile if they set off a nuke. And the media would probably overexaggerate it.

And because it can cause possibly tsunamis.

>>1091673

link to source or it didnt happn

>>1091701
first thing i found via google;
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0504/russian-paper-suggests-nuclear-explosion-cut-gulf-oil-geyser/

>so simple, in fact, that the Soviet Union, a major oil exporter, used this method five times to deal with petrocalamities

have seen it noted in articles on cnn [very briefly of course] , but i can't exactly find those articles because i'm drunk as hell

>>1091690
>>1091695
I hate that the world's opinion of nuclear is one of irrational fear.

>>1091647
>Can anyone tell me why they aren't considering it?

Because not many people are exactly sure if it would work and if it doesnt work it wouldnt be "oh well back to the drawing board"

It'd be a gigantic nuke making an even bigger hole (maybe)

>>1091782

>soviet union has done it 4 TIMES and it worked all 4 times

http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/03/peta-blames-meat-eaters-for-deepwater-oil-explosion/

>>1091626
>Tsar Bomba

Not gonna lie; I thought this was an Obama nickname at first.

>>1091690

In case you didn't notice, America doesn't give a fuck about what the world thinks.

A nuke would create a modest but devastating tsunami that would just push the existing oil farther inland and wash away shit on the beach. It would contaminate and kill everything within a certain area of the blast site and would irradiate a significant portion of the gulf-hundreds of square miles at least. And BP would probably manage to fuck this up, too.

>>1092063
We're not talking about a 50 megaton nuke here. Just a large enough warhead to take out the rig and well.

They don't do it because digging a nuke hole would take longer than the relief wells.

Heres a drawing for retards, no radiation no fallout no tsunamis

>>1092169
the one reason I am against all nuclear bomb being used is this.

Imagine if the oil well, was unexpectedly directly under the nuke, you'd proabbaly cause a cave in and a crater who knows how big, with ALL OF THE OIL FROM THE WELL SURGING OUT INTO THE OCEAN

>>1092203
Except they know where the oil well is and is very very far down.