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From these other valves and ultimately they will shut down the oil from all the valves in this new cap they've put on. one of the concerns that the government scientists raise, that when they do that, the goal is to build up the pressure and stop it, they're worried some could come out down here, where the seal where the new cap was put on, some pressure could come out there. that's one concern. the bigger concern i was told today by people involved in this is this, that if you cap it here, the pressure comes down, and you'll get down here at the base of the well, this is the old well essentia...

And so bear in mind that in the earth's crust there in the seafloor, you have a big pipe casing. then you put in a smaller one. it gets down all the way to seven inches. down very deep, almost two miles down, in the earth's crust. so that whole drill string below the earth's surface may have been rattled. and i had this model rigged up. here's the new cap which has a relief valve on it. this would go to the surface. but you've got to think of things below the seafloor. if this were the seafloor, this drill string goes down, down, almost two miles. so anywhere along this string, in the earth's ...

10,000 psi has got to be done gently, or there's a risk where you'll start causing new cracks. the thing exploded, you don't know what happened to the drill string below. it could be cracked in several places. it's very risky business. >> i's complicated but you helped us understand it. thank you, bill nye. >> thank you, chris. >> capping the well is not, if you can believe it, the only major problem facing bp today. a group of u.s. senators want to know if the oil giant made a despicable deal. that the lockerbie bomber was set free so bp could profit from drilling off the libyan coasts. the s...