Madonna as crazy as Tom Cruise? You decide...

[Izzy]

Madonna has lobbied the Government to use a "mystical" Kabbalah fluid to clean up radioactive waste, according to reports.

The pop superstar is a keen follower of the Jewish spiritual movement which believes that water can receive magic healing powers through "meditations and the consciousness of sharing".

Together with husband Guy Ritchie, she approached Downing Street, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) with the idea, The Sunday Times reported.

It is understood she was promoting a water-based solution that had allegedly proved successful in neutralising dangerous nuclear waste in Russia.

Film director Ritchie was said to have called BNFL and written a series of letters accompanied by scientific papers.

BNFL looked into the theory but could find no scientific basis for the claims, the newspaper said.

Mr Ritchie was told by one senior executive that the scheme defied the laws of physics, but he persisted and was referred to a team led by Sue Ion, BNFL's executive director of technology, said to have "a brain the size of a planet".

The Kabbalah Centre, based in Los Angeles, was set up by Philip Berg, a former insurance salesman.

Devotees are said to regularly chant "Chernobyl" and the names of other nuclear plants in a bid to heal the problem of nuclear waste.

Both Downing Street and the DTI said they do not comment on matters of "private correspondence".

What a sensible idea! Clearly praying to water will deal with radiation, its all so obvious

Honestly, what goes through these people's minds? Is it the consequence of being surrounded by 'yes-men' for decades at a time that results in this kind of behaviour?

[Jessica]

Well, madonna and her husband may have gone off the rail a little bit, bu since cherie sports a little bracelet and since the couple have gone to india a lot to " not so spiritual" people themselves, the ritchie couple may have addressed themselves to the right people.