"A week ago Sunday the first research vessel ... was commissioned by NOAA to scour the area" [...] "They found 'a gigantic plume' growing about five to seven miles from the site of the original leak." Matt Simmons, founder of energy investment bank Simmons & Company, known for predicting the oil price spike of 2008 says sending a small nuclear bomb down the leaking well is "probably the only thing we can do" to stop the leak.[...]
His idea echoes that of a Russian newspaper that earlier this month suggested the US detonate a small nuclear bomb to seal the oil beneath the sea. Komsomoloskaya Pravda argued in an editorial that Russia had successfully used nuclear weapons to seal oil spills on five occasions in the past.
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