On Feb. 28, North Dakota officials found hundreds of irradiated “filter socks” -- used...Image Source: North Dakota Dept of Health via Bloomberg “We have many more wells, producing at an accelerating rate, and for each of them there’s a higher volume of waste,” said Avner Vengosh, a professor of geochemistry at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who’s studied the issue. Without proper handling, “we are actually building up a legacy of radioactivity in hundreds of points where people have had leaks or spills around the country.” The waste is a byproduct of the drilling renaissance that has brought U.S. oil and natural gas production to its highest levels in three decades -- while also unlocking naturally occurring radium from rock formations far underground. bloomberg/news/2014-04-15/radioactive-waste-booms-with-oil-as-new-rules-mulled.html
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:48:47 +0000
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