THE SOVIETS USED NUKES TO STOP OIL SPILLS, SO CAN OTHER NATIONS. Broad, William J. "Nuclear Option on Gulf Oil Spill No Way, US. Says" The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. 2 June 2010. Web. 25 Aug. 2010. . Much of the enthusiasm for anatomic approach is based on reports that the Soviet Union succeeded in using nuclear blasts to seal off gas wells. Milo D. Nordyke, in a 2000 technical paper for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif, described five Soviet blasts from 1966 to 1981. All but the last blast were successful. The 1966 explosion putout a gas well fire that had raged uncontrolled for three years. But the last blast of the series, Mr. Nordyke wrote, did not seal the well perhaps because the nuclear engineers had poor geological data on the exact location of the borehole.
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