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.

• http://www.newser.com/story/179048/a-new-nuclear-waste-solution-use-it-for-fracking.html
• http://www.livescience.com/41865-fracking-nuclear-waste-disposal.html?cmpid=514645

Happy to see more coverage of this.

Here's something that caught my eye back in July about this:

• http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3647

Been blogging about the use of DU in fracking for some time:

• http://williamahuston.blogspot.com/2013/07/halliburtonschlumberger-radiation.html

Also been tracking using fracking wells as waste disposal wells for some time:

• http://williamahuston.blogspot.com/2013/07/fracking-shale-as-waste-storage.html

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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