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Nuclear Energy

Is the Marcellus Shale Too Hot to Handle?

Full story: ProPublica

As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troubling discovery about the wastewater created by the process: It's radioactive.

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tjostemj

Decorah, IA

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Nov 9, 2009
 
Newly found natural gas comes with some additional costs. Radium 226 in the accompanying water is 267 times above safe limits. Low levels of radiation may be healthful, but higher levels have health consequences. You can't ask the radium watch dial painters about the dangers of high radium levels as they went to an early grave.
koz

Clinton, OH

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tjostemj wrote:
You can't ask the radium watch dial painters about the dangers of high radium levels as they went to an early grave.
What percentage of them did that?
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