Radioactive Waste from Horizontal Hydrofracking

[ensho]

http://63.134.196.109/documents/10sep21_RadioactiveWastefromHorizontalHydrofracking.pdf


In a previous paper,1 I compared the horizontal hydrofracking of shale to a “pipe bomb.” Real bombs have been used to frack shale, including at least one nuclear device at Rulison, Colorado.2 The bomb worked, but the gas was too radioactive to be marketable. Ironically, the horizontal hydrofracking of Marcellus shale poses a similar problem – it produces radioactive waste.

The frack fluid effectively leaches radioactive radium out of the shale. When the frack water is pumped back out of the well, it is laced with radium, a potent carcinogen.3 Based on a recent article in Scientific American, the amount of radium in water from the Marcellus is 267 times the safe limit for disposal, and thousands of times the level considered safe to drink.4

In New York, municipal treatment plants filter or settle sediment out of water. Using this method to treat ‘produced’ water from fracking operations would effectively reduce the sediment in the wastewater to a radioactive sludge, which, depending on the level of contamination, would have to be disposed of as a HAZMAT waste. New York state municipal treatment plants are simply not equipped to do this. Handling the radioactive wastewater would put municipal water treatment workers at risk.

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The risks posed by these radioactive wastes need to be addressed by local governments, the DEC and the EPA before horizontal hydrofracking of shale can be allowed to proceed in New York state.
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Penn. is already radioactive because of this

[Orrex]

1. Gosh! Is there anything that fracking can't do for the average citizen?

K/R

[madrchsod]

2. the mother fracking bastards are out to kill us all....

actually it cost the state and st ronald on the horse,il about two million dollars to get the radium out of our deep well water.

[Sheepshank]

3. what the frack?

sorry...can't seem to focus on a Friday after a fracking rotten week of fracking idiots that insist an making me listen their mother fracking rants.

[chiptex]

4. very fracking radioactive

For more ideas on how you can be radioactively fracked - check out http://www.otsego2000.org/

"Radium - it's what's for dinner"

Ra 226 - the element that made Marie Curie famous.

Saratoga Water - now available in Sparking, Still or the new glow-in-the-dark Radioactive

Radium - Coming to a stream near you - for the next 1,600 years or so.

http://63.134.196.109/documents/10sep21_RadioactiveWastefromHorizontalHydrofracking.pdf

[Panaconda]

5. K&R n/t

[hootinholler]

6. kick for later. n/t

[thereismore]

7. The author suggests pumping the waste into Texas salt domes. Jesus. nt

[Fla_Democrat]

8. In a salute to Dave Barry

"Horizontal Hydrofracking" would be a great name for a band.

I'm just saying.

:smoke:

[felix_numinous]

9. Sociopathic killers

all of them, the companies that are 'too big to fail'--their size has created a corporate climate that follows mob mentality.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. some related info ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=249200&mesg_id=249200

http://www.mindat.org/min-7267.html

[Karenina]

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