{"id":235371,"date":"2016-04-01T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T14:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=235371"},"modified":"2016-04-01T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T14:49:09","slug":"fracking-creates-massive-radioactive-waste-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/fracking-creates-massive-radioactive-waste-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Fracking Creates Massive Radioactive Waste Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) openly acknowledges that\u00a0fracking fluid contains \u201cthousands of chemicals\u201d, but nowhere is there mention of radioactivity in its risk assessments. Now, a new study reveals the \u201cnatural gas\u201d industry may be hiding a secret as dark and deadly as the one the nuclear industry has been trying to conceal for decades.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Following\u00a0<a title=\"Drought Stricken California Turns to Oil Industry Wastewater for Crop Irrigation\" href=\"http:\/\/wakeup-world.com\/2015\/08\/24\/drought-stricken-california-turns-to-oil-industry-wastewater-for-crop-irrigation\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent news<\/a> that California\u2019s fracking industry will be \u201crepurposing\u201d its toxic wastewater to meet the needs of an<a title=\"Geoengineering Continues To Rob Rain From Where It Is Most Needed\" href=\"http:\/\/wakeup-world.com\/2015\/09\/07\/geoengineering-continues-to-rob-rain-from-where-it-is-most-needed\/\" target=\"_blank\">agricultural industry driven desperate by the drought<\/a>, a timely new study published in the peer-reviewed journal\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/ehp.niehs.nih.gov\/journal-information\/\" href=\"http:\/\/ehp.niehs.nih.gov\/journal-information\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Environmental Health Perspectives<\/em><\/a> reveals that fracking wastewater is not just a source of dangerous petrochemicals but also a highly toxic form of radioactive waste.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4492256\/\">What\u2019s NORMal for Fracking? Estimating Total Radioactivity of Produced Fluids<\/a>\u201c, the new study tested the hypothesis that fracking wastewater contains the same naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) found in the shale deposits that it is produced from as a drilling byproduct. The primary radionuclides of interest include <sup>226<\/sup>radium,<sup>210<\/sup>polonium, and\u00a0<sup>210<\/sup>lead, which are decay products of <sup>238<\/sup>uranium and <sup>228<\/sup>thorium, and which are normally safely locked away deep within millions of years old geological formations.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <em><a href=\"\/\/wakeup-world.com\/2015\/09\/16\/fracking-creates-massive-radioactive-waste-problem\/\">Fracking Creates Massive Radioactive Waste Problem<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) openly acknowledges that\u00a0fracking fluid contains \u201cthousands of chemicals\u201d, but nowhere is there mention of radioactivity in its risk assessments. Now, a new study reveals the \u201cnatural gas\u201d industry may be hiding a secret as dark and deadly as the one the nuclear industry has been trying to conceal for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-235371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}