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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: epicure who wrote (226426)6/22/2013 10:04:41 PM
From: T L Comiskey  Read Replies (3) of 541698
 
re....threats........

Fracked gas is...Radioactive



Notes on Drilling for gas rich shale deposits......................
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The way you find shale on a well log is via its radioactive signature.
It is the most radioactive sedimentary layer that the well bore will encounter.
When the gamma log spikes, you know you’ve hit shale.
If the log went any higher, you’ve likely hit a vein of uranium ore. Congratulations.

Shale has various radioactive materials in it –
Uranium, Radium, Strontium.

And the most problematic material in the Marcellus Shale is Radium 226,
the isotope that made Marie Curie famous.
Right before it killed her.
When you process frackwaste, you end up with highly radioactive sludge. Which you must get rid of some obscure place far far away.
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