(Reuters) – Former long-time Russian Minister of Nuclear Energy and veteran Soviet physicist Viktor Mikhailov smiles during an interview with Reuters in Moscow June 30, 2010. His face wracked by age and his voice rasping after decades of chain-smoking coarse tobacco, Mikhailov knows just how to fix BP’s oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. “A nuclear explosion over the leak,” he says nonchalantly puffing a cigarette as he sits in a conference room at the Institute of Strategic Stability, where he is a director. Picture taken June 30, 2010. To match Special Report OIL-SPILL/NUKES REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin (RUSSIA – Tags: ENERGY SCI TECH BUSINESS)

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