A Million Fracking Letters
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Doug Wood, please contact me for a Radio Appearance on the LIsa Wexler Show this week. Friend of Steve Glaser's. Lisa
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Subsurface formations may contain low levels of radioactive materials such as uranium and thorium and their daughter products, radium 226 and radium 228.
Shales may contain radioactive elements. The Marcellus is considered to be a “highly radioactive” shale.
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@whlanteigne GOOD CALL
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great work!
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If you do a search on "radioactive materials in shale plays" you'll find that there are many sources of information on this. A good one is an article in Scientific American, that should come up early in the search -- for some reason, YouTube isn't letting me post the link.
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You lost me at "radioactive." I'm not aware of nuclear devices being used for this purpose. Please be specific about the source of radioactive waste material, the NRC and I are very curious.
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Good job, and good luck!
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Thanks for your comment. This has to do with radium that is naturally present in bedrock but (until now) safely embedded within the rock. The fracking process explodes the rock and dislodges the radium, which comes back up to the surface with the fracking fluid.
27DougWood 5 months ago