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Originally Posted by Broadsword2004
One other thing about the Soviet Russians I'd bet is they probably could have cared less if nuking an area to stop the wells from leaking would have hurt the local population.
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This clip of a "contained underground nuclear explosion" gave me a better idea of what was done in a nat. gas leak.
Link (skip 20 sec in)
No idea of the accuracy of the USSR’s claims – or how it would work 5K feet underwater in that part of the Gulf - but read in “the oil drum” dot com that the method was used 5 times with a success rate of 80% for them (on land).
The relief well will have to be very deep and
when they are able to make a direct hit - it will still be a task to stop the original leak.