ENERGY EXPERTS RECOMMEND NUKES FAST WAY TO SOLVE OIL SPILLS. Tencer, Daniel. "Energy Expert Nuking Oil Leak only Thing We Can Do" Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com. 30 May 2010. Web. 25 Aug. 2010. . One prominent energy expert 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. Matt Simmons, founder of energy investment bank Simmons & Company, also says that there is evidence of a second oil leak about five to seven miles from the initial leak that BP has focused on fixing. That second leak, he says, is so large that the initial one is minor in comparison.