Thursday, December 12, 2013

Using fracking shale to store low level nuclear wastes.

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New story out about using Shale-Fracking to store low-level nuclear wastes.

Happy to see more coverage of this.

Here's something that caught my eye back in July about this:
Been blogging about the use of DU in fracking for some time:
Also been tracking using fracking wells as waste disposal wells for some time:

US Waste quantities factoids:
  • 100 RR cars x100 tons per car = 10,000 tons per 1 mile train.
  • 700,000 tons of Depleted Uranium exist in storage in the US. (70 mile train)
  • Between 400M-8B tons of industrial wastes generated in the US per year. 
    (40,000 miles-800,000 miles).
  • Circumference of the earth = 25,000 miles
  • US industrial waste stream = 1.6-32 trips around the earth.
Here's a new graphic about the volume of chemicals used
to frack 8 wells in a 640 acre spacing unit (1 square mile)




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2 comments:

Unknown said...

Bill: I may be missing something, but: .5% = .005 (5 x 10 to the minus 3rd power
35.8 million tons = 35.8 x 10 to the 6th power x 2 x 10 to the 3rd power (1 ton) = 71.6 x 10 to the 9th power.
.5%(5 x 10 to the minus 3rd power) x 71.6 x 10 to the 9th power = 358 x 10 to the 6th power (358,000,000 lbs).
This is not 90 tons (180,000 lbs).

Bill Huston 1 said...

Nice catch! I've corrected the graphic.

4.3M gal of water weighs 35.8M lbs of water, not tons. Also clarified about the percentage... I noticed that before but didn't think anyone would call me on it :)

Anyway-- as always, if you catch me in an error, always happy to fix it. I'm not perfect. Thanks.