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U.S. govt rejects idea of nuclear bomb to fix oil spill as “crazy”

Nuclear Option on Gulf Oil Spill? No Way, U.S. Says,  NYTimes.com, By WILLIAM J. BROAD : June 2, 2010 The chatter began weeks ago as armchair engineers brainstormed for ways to stop the torrent of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico: What about nuking the well?….
Stephanie Mueller, a spokeswoman for the Energy Department, said that neither Energy Secretary, Steven Chu  nor anyone else was thinking about a nuclear blast under the gulf. The nuclear option was not — and never had been — on the table, federal officials said.

“It’s crazy,” one senior official said.

Government and private nuclear experts agreed that using a nuclear bomb would be not only risky technically, with unknown and possibly disastrous consequences from radiation, but also unwise geopolitically — it would violate arms treaties that the United States has signed and championed over the decades and do so at a time when President Obama is pushing for global nuclear disarmament.Nuclear Option on Gulf Oil Spill? No Way, U.S. Says – NYTimes.com

June 4, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes